28-Year-Old Dutch Woman to Legally End Her Life in May.
A Dutch woman has decided to legally end her life citing her struggles with crippling depression and autism, according to a report. Zoraya ter Beek, a 28-year-old physically healthy, who lives in a small village in the Netherlands near the German border, is slated to be euthanised in May, according to the New York Post (NYP).
The Dutch woman said she decided to be euthanised after her doctors told her nothing more could be done to improve her condition.
Didn’t we use to try to prevent people who were depressed from committing suicide?
The World has turned into a Monty Python skit.
I am actually a proponent of euthansia for humans, but more in the context of terminal illness where you are beyond all but pallative care. As in, I got a few months left to live of very low quality life. Something that is fairly easy to discern as to whether or not there is remaining treatments or not. Advanced pancreatic cancer? Sure, I would like the option.
Mental health is a way touchier subject because you really can’t narrow it down that clearly, at least not with our current grasp of mental health. Where would you draw the line? How could you truly say that there is nothing more that could be done for the patient. I have struggled with depression my whole life, there isn’t some magical cure for it. There were times in my life I probably would avail myself of something like this if it had been available for me (I am fine at the moment comrades, no need for concern) and in retrospect I am glad it wasn’t. I just can’t imagine being the arbiter of what constitutes sufficient depression to warrant euthansia.
As much as I would like to see euthansia more embraced for actually terminal cases, I don’t want to see it used by the state to just get rid of patients that they see as a burden either.
I agree. I am not against euthanasia, but euthanasia for mental disorders shouldn’t be a thing. I too am afraid that this is a slippery slope as it can be used to get rid of people who feel depressed because of poverty (like they’re trying to do in Canada).
I think of it like the death sentence, last option resort, but under capitalism it will be used to kill poor people who can’t make capital.
Having a reserve of labour is important for capitalism to keep functioning. That being said, if the reserve army is growing capital may not care if more leave by yet another form of death. Just because someone can’t make capital doesn’t make them unimportant to capitalism, but only to a certain extent.