Desc: Death on Request: Directed by Maarten Nederhorst. With Wilfred van Oijen, Antoinette van Wendel de Joode, Cornelis van Wendel de Joode. About Cees de Joode, a Dutch man suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - an incurable degenerative muscle disease better known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease" -, as he, his wife Antoinette, and his doctor choose euthanasia to end his torment. In 1993, it became obvious that the illness would swiftly take Cees' life. Already in a wheelchair, his legs and feet paralyzed, unable to move his right shoulder or arm, and almost incapable of speaking, Cees started a journal using his personal computer. He wrote in it "The possibility of euthanasia has for months been a comforting thought to me. It gets me on my feet again - at least figuratively. Literally, that's totally out of the question. It helps enormously in setting my limits." He let his doctor know that as his death approached, and his body degenerated further, he wished to choose his time to die.