I just watched this. It's very sad to see someone so young who suffers so much. We have no idea what was running through his mind regularly. It was probably worse than we imagine and more than most of us can handle even as adults.
There's a line in which the father says that this particular institution helped keep him alive for a few years. This got me thinking... does that count as helping? For a mind that suffers so much, isn't letting him fulfill his wishes to die really the most humane thing, regardless of age?
I know we've talked a bit about suicide and age before in this site and I know it can be a controversial topic. This film made me think about my own childhood thoughts. I used to think about killing myself when I was younger, but my mind didn't suffer like Evan's. There was no cure for what his mind was experiencing. Was working so hard to keep him alive really in his best interests, or was it in the best interests of the adults around him? (I'm really posing the question; not asking rhetorically.)