Cindy Duehring
Cindy Duehring ( born August 10, 1962 in Bismarck, North Dakota, † June 29, 1999 in Epping, North Dakota) was an American activist who was aware of the problems made as sufferers who can carry multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS ) arise.
Life and work
Duehring was the daughter of Jan and Donald Froeschle. She studied medicine in Seattle, when she poisoned herself in 1985 in her apartment by improper application of an insecticide ( against fleas). It developed as a result, an auto immune deficiency. Duehring first got breathing difficulties, suffered a stroke; Damage to their nervous system, kidneys, and metabolic disorders fallen further and further away.
In 1989, she left her house for the last time, which was specially built in a remote area in the grasslands of North Dakota by her husband and her father, and had been provided with filter systems. Only materials were used for construction, which emit virtually no fumes: ceramic floors, metal furniture, glass tables. Her husband Jim Duehring, they married on July 10, 1988, lived in a house 500 meters away, as odors that adhered after a working day to him, you hurt. Visitors had to be freed in a complicated process of any odors and residues of chemicals to carry any substance in the spaces that Cindy Duehring could have killed. Later excessive light and noise sensitivity were added, so that they could not even watch TV without risking new relapses. Modern amenities such as telephone, radio, computer or fax machine they finally could no longer use. Even simple things that keep most people take for granted - like a ray of sunshine, drinking water or ambient air - sparked complaints. The drinking water they had to specially prepare. A few years before her death, she practically ceased to speak, as they toiled noise - induced seizures. In June 1999, she died at the age of only 36 years of organ failure.
Just one year after the start of their illness she had, called Environmental Access Research Network (EARN ), which later became the Research Department of the Chemical Injury Information Network ( CIIN ) to life. EARN has become the largest private library of health issues related to chemicals. CIIN is health experts, legal experts, lawyers, as well as laypersons.
Awards
Cindy Duehring won the 1997 Right Livelihood Award that she put her personal tragedy in the service of humanity by helping others to understand the risks posed by toxic chemicals and to combat them. At the awards ceremony she had to be represented by her husband Jim Duehring. Since Cindy's death, he continues their work.