29-year-old Dutch woman ends her life legally - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Steve_uk · 08-09-2018, 04:35 AM

I came upon a case in the Netherlands this morning where it's legal for the State (in the form of a doctor) to help you terminate your life. This is not just amongst terminally-ill patients, where one might think there might be a modicum of justification if the individual concerned is 90 years old, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has only one month to live, however distressing this may be.

What we are dealing with here is a physically healthy 29-year-old woman who has had mental health problems since the age of 12, and who has expressed a sustained wish over a number of years to end her own life, having made several suicide attempts in the process. I am trying to read up on the case but my initial reactions are these: how did she get into this mindset from an early age that she was a useless human being, how was her self-esteem so low that she came to believe living was intolerable, and how can any doctor who signed the Hippocratic Oath clinically perform euthanasia on one of his patients?

You can see the preparations for death here as the funeral arrangements are rehearsed, the woman in question, Aurelia Brouwers, dying at home on 26 January. Did she die with dignity, clutching her pink cuddly toy with her favourite music track playing in the background, or was this just a substitute for the proper care she should have received from the medical profession, where a suicide wish might just be one symptom of the illness she was suffering from? https://youtu.be/ySVKF5_6gfM

Steve_uk · 08-09-2018, 04:37 AM

There's more here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45117163

Lee · 08-12-2018, 11:00 AM

It is physician assisted suicide and the bible is against it

Steve_uk · 08-12-2018, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Lee

It is physician assisted suicide and the bible is against it

Yes and of course once physician-assisted suicide is legalized it opens the floodgates to all kinds of controversial cases: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a7564061.html

Dude111 · 08-12-2018, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Lee

It is physician assisted suicide and the bible is against it

The bible is a made up religion meant to control people.... It doesnt mean anything!!!

GOD means everything... God is good

08-09-2018, 04:35 AM	#1
Steve_uk Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Jun 29, 2012 Location: Manchester UK Posts: 5,803	29-year-old Dutch woman ends her life legally I came upon a case in the Netherlands this morning where it's legal for the State (in the form of a doctor) to help you terminate your life. This is not just amongst terminally-ill patients, where one might think there might be a modicum of justification if the individual concerned is 90 years old, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has only one month to live, however distressing this may be. What we are dealing with here is a physically healthy 29-year-old woman who has had mental health problems since the age of 12, and who has expressed a sustained wish over a number of years to end her own life, having made several suicide attempts in the process. I am trying to read up on the case but my initial reactions are these: how did she get into this mindset from an early age that she was a useless human being, how was her self-esteem so low that she came to believe living was intolerable, and how can any doctor who signed the Hippocratic Oath clinically perform euthanasia on one of his patients? You can see the preparations for death here as the funeral arrangements are rehearsed, the woman in question, Aurelia Brouwers, dying at home on 26 January. Did she die with dignity, clutching her pink cuddly toy with her favourite music track playing in the background, or was this just a substitute for the proper care she should have received from the medical profession, where a suicide wish might just be one symptom of the illness she was suffering from? https://youtu.be/ySVKF5_6gfM

08-09-2018, 04:37 AM	#2
Steve_uk Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Jun 29, 2012 Location: Manchester UK Posts: 5,803	There's more here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45117163

08-12-2018, 11:00 AM	#3
Lee veteran member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: May 23, 2001 Location: Pulaski, Tennessee Posts: 4,766	It is physician assisted suicide and the bible is against it