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Noa Pothoven, 17-year-old who sought euthanasia, dies at home after battle with depression
Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:08 am
Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:08 am
I thought there was more to the "euthanasia" story. Very sad, but there was indeed more to it.
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Noa Pothoven, 17-year-old who sought euthanasia, dies at home after battle with depression, anorexia
by Alex Lasker
June 4, 2019
A 17-year-old Dutch girl who sought euthanasia but was rejected by the government was allowed to die at home on Sunday after a years-long battle with depression and anorexia.
Noa Pothoven, of Arnhem in the Netherlands, explained the choice to end her own life by starvation in a now-private Instagram post last week, saying the trauma she struggled to live with following a childhood rape had become insufferable.
"After years of fighting and battling, I am drained," she wrote. "I have quit eating and drinking for a while now, and after many discussions and evaluations, it was decided to let me go because my suffering is unbearable."
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Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:15 am to NC_Tigah
It's no less a troubling story. Basically, her parents helped facilitate her dying, with essentially the full blessing of the government there. The rape was by muslims - which nobody is publishing for some reason.
The whole thing seems like a failure by society all around.
It seems clear there's not really an answer here, but I'm pretty sure any notion that we should be celebrating this as some sort of advancement of civilization is not it.
The whole thing seems like a failure by society all around.
It seems clear there's not really an answer here, but I'm pretty sure any notion that we should be celebrating this as some sort of advancement of civilization is not it.
This post was edited on 6/11/19 at 10:19 am
Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:19 am to NC_Tigah
Truly sad that she never found the help she desperately needed.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:36 am to NC_Tigah
And people are getting their kids taken away from them because they put a belt on their arse.
WTF is wrong with these idiots?
WTF is wrong with these idiots?
Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:39 am to NC_Tigah
Her parents are just as complicit. Who would stand by and allow their child to starve themselves to death.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:01 am to NC_Tigah
That’s a sad story. You have to be in a very dark place to do something like that. Sucks there wasn’t any kind of help that could keep her out of that dark place.
Truly some major mental issues and I can only hope that a just God understands such and does not punish her and that she is in eternal happiness
Truly some major mental issues and I can only hope that a just God understands such and does not punish her and that she is in eternal happiness
Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:12 am to NC_Tigah
What is learned by others that are fighting depression or hard times when they read this?
Unfortunately, this is just the beginning...
Unfortunately, this is just the beginning...
Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:55 am to NC_Tigah
Participation trophies started this
Posted on 6/11/19 at 12:11 pm to NC_Tigah
17 years old?! WTF?
Although I was never raped by Muslims, I'd venture to think that life gets better. But whatever.
Although I was never raped by Muslims, I'd venture to think that life gets better. But whatever.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 12:19 pm to NC_Tigah
I support euthanasia if someone has a terminal illness or is in constant excruciating physical pain.
Depression is treatable and does not fit this.
Depression is treatable and does not fit this.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 4:29 pm to NC_Tigah
Just an opinion from someone that mostly lurks.
FightingBob is the worst poster on this site.
FightingBob is the worst poster on this site.
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