A young person legally euthanased in Holland .

[Temporarilyabsurd]

Teenager who was sexually assaulted multiple times ends her own life after requesting legal euthanasia

Noa Pothoven had been repeatedly re-admitted to hospital to try and treat her post traumatic stress disorder, depression and anorexia

www.independent.co.uk

This surprised me a bit .
Why ?
Well , she wrote a book - at the age of seventeen , and then is diagnosed as suitable for state assisted euthanasia.

I'm not judging - just surprised .

Anyway , I thought I would post it as it is part of the ongoing legal /illegal , age limit dialogue .

 

[Severen]

Yeah, good luck trying to get that to happen in the USA. The entire bible belt will rise up and have a massive hissy fit.

 

[Imgonnadie]

They should give her some shrooms or MDMA. She was probably given shit that made it worse and useless talk therapy

 

[Temporarilyabsurd]

Different info :

Global media misreports Dutch teen author’s death as “legal euthanasia”

A number of international news outlets reported the death of Dutch teen author Noa Pothoven as "legal euthanasia", though this apparently was not the case. The teenager died in a hospital bed in the living room of her parental home in Arnhem on Sunday, according to newspaper AD. In a final...

nltimes.nl

Media misreport Dutch teen's death as euthanasia – DW – 06/05/2019

The tragic end to a 17-year-old's long battle with pain and depression has been turned into a story about a controversial Dutch assisted suicide law. But the author's story is more complicated than has been portrayed.

m.dw.com

(thanks to @RainAndSadness in another thread about this for the links .

https://sanctioned-suicide.net/threads/17-year-old-girl-euthanised-in-the-netherlands.17107/page-2

)

 

[TiredHorse]

Again, it was mis-represented. Not euthanasia, but informed refusal of consent to treatment and then starvation:

Dutch girl was not 'legally euthanised' and died at home

Noa Pothoven is believed to have refused to eat and there is no evidence of assisted death

www.theguardian.com

 

[Final Escape]

God that is so terribly sad :(" I doubt that the right thing to do was to euthanize her but I do understand that if u cannot find the right treatments to cure complex ptsd you will be in a lot of pain.

 

[Alchemist]

I wish we could have access to that, sadly, reading comments of ths in another places show how pro-lifers are completely stupid.

 

[TiredHorse]

Further follow-up, by the BBC:

Why Dutch teenager Noa's tragic death was misunderstood

Noa Pothoven had a desperate mental illness and died of starvation, but her story was wrongly told.

www.bbc.com

 

[ArtsyDrawer]

Does this mean one can travel to... uh... The Netherlands to be euthanized there?
I'm epileptic. Assuming the surgery fails, there's no place for improvement. In fact, there's room for deterioration because of seizures, and if they DO get contained by a fuckload of meds, depression and a ton of side effects.
To me, the "the patient's suffering is unbearable with no prospect of improvement" rule applies under my judgment, but who am I to decide things, you know?

 

[mpti]

Does this mean one can travel to... uh... The Netherlands to be euthanized there?
I'm epileptic. Assuming the surgery fails, there's no place for improvement. In fact, there's room for deterioration because of seizures, and if they DO get contained by a fuckload of meds, depression and a ton of side effects.
To me, the "the patient's suffering is unbearable with no prospect of improvement" rule applies under my judgment, but who am I to decide things, you know?

I think you have to be a citizen to even qualify, and even then it's reasonably difficult to get approved.