Teenager Dies after Requesting Euthanasia for Post-Rape PTSD, Anorexia
By Wesley J. Smith
June 4, 2019 3:53 PM
Editor’s Note: This post has been revised throughout to account for new information about the case.
Euthanasia advocates claim it is “compassion.†But it is really abandonment most foul.
A Dutch teenager, who was raped by two men when she was 14, will never live to adulthood or overcome the severe depression the attack caused. Instead, per the Washington Post:
In what she termed a “sad last post†on Instagram, Noa Pothoven, 17, wrote Saturday that she would be dead within 10 days. But it had been “so long,†she added, since she had “really been alive.â€
. . .
It was unclear whether her death had come with the involvement of doctors, whose assistance she had at one point requested. A spokeswoman for a member of the Dutch parliament who had recently visited her told DutchNews.nl that she understood the death to be a result of the girl’s refusal to eat.
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