17 year old girl euthanized in Holland because of depression

Noa Pothoven, who was sexually assaulted and raped as a young child, has been legally euthanised at her home after medical experts agreed her suffering had become “unbearable”. The 17-year-old, died in an “end-of-life clinic” bed in her living room in the Netherlands after battling mental health problems for years, The Independent reported.

The teenager, from Arnhem, was granted the right to end her own life after sexual assaults and rapes as a young girl led her to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anorexia.

She was attacked three times as a youngster, the first two being when she went to children’s parties at age 11 and 12. She was then raped by two men when she was 14 in the Elderveld neighbourhood of the city. Pothoven never revealed the horrific abuse because she felt ashamed, until last year when she reported the attacks to police saying she hoped the men who raped her will one day be arrested.

She told the Gelderlander in December last year that she initially contacted the Life End Clinic in The Hague without telling her loved ones. “Out of fear and shame, I relive the fear, that pain every day. Always scared, always on my guard. And to this day my body still feels dirty,” she said. “My house has been broken into, my body, that can never be undone.”

The day before she died, she posted a message on Instagram revealing her decision to die.

“I deliberated for quite a while whether or not I should share this, but decided to do it anyway,” she wrote. “Maybe this comes as a surprise to some, given my posts about hospitalisation, but my plan has been there for a long time and is not impulsive. “I will get straight to the point: within a maximum of 10 days I will die.”

She explained that she made the difficult decision after “battling” mental anguish for most of her life. “After years of battling and fighting, I am drained. 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.” She added that while she was “alive” she felt as if she was merely surviving, writing: “I breathe, but I no longer live.”

She asked her friends to “not convince me that this is not good, this is my decision and it is final. “Love is letting go, in this case.”

Poor girl. I agree with her decision, because no one gives a shitt anymore, it really is a horrible World.

The human race stinks.

I saw that story and I was amazed at how ****ed up it is. Are the seriously saying that they can't offer psychiatric help to help her come to terms with this?
That by the time she was in her 20s, with the coping skills of an adult and help from psychiatrists, she might well have had a decent quality of life?

It's disgusting imho. They allow kids to be euthanised from the age of 12 up, and their parents don't even need to agree once they hit 16!

Surely this is for terminal conditions like cancer or degenerative disease victims and so on. I can't get my head round this.

I understand how you feel just checking


But one of those young men, I had never seen anyone so distressed, he walked out of hospital and did it, jumping


Also knew a female who was in a state for years, she was in her twenties though, no one could reach her

Carpented died of anorexia not suicide didn't she? But we digress.

I read a story a while back, where another troubled soul killed herself in a rehabilitation clinic. As I said, no one cares.

There's a program tonight called crisis in care. I think I'll give it a miss. They'll go on about we have to do this and that to improve things but in years to come they'll still be repeating the same drivel and continue to do nothing. Give people the respect they deserve you heartless *****. The old and vulnerable are treated like pieces of dirt and it simply has to stop.

Surely this is for terminal conditions like cancer or degenerative disease victims and so on. I can't get my head round this.

Yeah, when I saw the headline I thought she must be paralyzed, in constant pain or terminally ill.

sb not all people

Apparently it was not assisted death:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/05/noa-pothoven-netherlands-girl-not-legally-euthanised-died-at-home

Very sad but it seems the reports are false and she died of anorexia not euthanasia (which was denied)

people with mental health issues, just can't do that,they are irrational.

Of course they can't Twonky, because they are mentally ill

I think you lack empathy if you see her as attention seeking and selfish twonky

reports suggest intial reports were wrong akabula.  Fresh reports say she died of anorexia and that euthanasia was refused

twonky you know what you are mate. a fecking idiot.