Woman, 23, who survived 2016 Brussels airport ISIS bomb euthanised in Belgium
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#4Imagine if you told your doctor you wanted to kill yourself and they helped you make arrangements. This is terrible, appalling that the Belgian government allows this.
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#5Imagine if you told your doctor you wanted to kill yourself and they helped you make arrangements. This is terrible, appalling that the Belgian government allows this.
What's the point of living if you are completely unable to enjoy life?
Those who haven't encountered true persistent depression have no idea what it feels like to be incapable of feeling any kind of joy. In her case she also had constant panic attacks and was unable to function in society.
Is it really living if your entire "life" consists of going in and out of mental hospitals and never being able to sustain a normal relationship or conversations with any other human?
Article says two doctors confirmed it. This wasn't just something that popped in her head one day.
Re: Woman, 23, who survived 2016 Brussels airport ISIS bomb euthanised in Belgium
#6Imagine if you told your doctor you wanted to kill yourself and they helped you make arrangements. This is terrible, appalling that the Belgian government allows this.
What's the point of living if you are completely unable to enjoy life? Those who haven't encountered true persistent depression have no idea what it feels like to be incapable of feeling any kind of joy. In her case she also had constant panic attacks and was unable to function in society. Is it really living if your entire "life" consists of going in and out of mental hospitals and never being able to sustain a norm…
I have a panic disorder and I have had daily panic attacks from middle school until about 2 years ago. I have attempted suicide before. If a doctor were to indulge my delusions I would be dead now. That doctor is a monster. I refuse to believe that there was no way she could have found peace. Her doctors gave up on her.
Re: Woman, 23, who survived 2016 Brussels airport ISIS bomb euthanised in Belgium
#7Imagine if you told your doctor you wanted to kill yourself and they helped you make arrangements. This is terrible, appalling that the Belgian government allows this.
If a person of sound mind wishes to end their life, they should be able to. Forcing someone who is experiencing constant excruciating pain to endure that pain until the natural end of their life is cruel and inhumane.
Re: Woman, 23, who survived 2016 Brussels airport ISIS bomb euthanised in Belgium
#8Imagine if you told your doctor you wanted to kill yourself and they helped you make arrangements. This is terrible, appalling that the Belgian government allows this.
If a person of sound mind wishes to end their life, they should be able to. Forcing someone who is experiencing constant excruciating pain to endure that pain until the natural end of their life is cruel and inhumane.
A suicidal person is not of sound mind.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
If a person of sound mind wishes to end their life, they should be able to. Forcing someone who is experiencing constant excruciating pain to endure that pain until the natural end of their life is cruel and inhumane.
A suicidal person is not of sound mind.
And you're more qualified to determine that over the Internet than the two psychiatrists who evaluated the woman in the article?
Re: Woman, 23, who survived 2016 Brussels airport ISIS bomb euthanised in Belgium
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
A suicidal person is not of sound mind.
And you're more qualified to determine that over the Internet than the two psychiatrists who evaluated the woman in the article?
First of all, the entire field of psychiatry is very dubious. It's nothing similar to a mature science. They aren't really doing objective evaluations. For example, very often, if you really want to take a medication, you almost certainly can find someone who'd write you a prescription for it. [1]
Also, why would someone's academic qualifications entitle them to essentially sentence a suicidal person to death?
[1]: e.g "Also, if by some chance a psychiatrist doesn’t give a patient Adderall, that patient practically always goes to another psychiatrist, and that next psychiatrist does." (https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo...)