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'Painless death' or 'precipitous cliff'? Transsexual chooses euthanasia after failed operation
NBCNEWS ^ | October 5, 2013 | Alexander Smith

Posted on 10/06/2013 10:45:00 PM PDT by cunning_fish

A high-profile case of a Belgian transsexual who chose to be killed by medical euthanasia after a sex-change operation turned him into a "monster" has highlighted the soaring number of people in the region electing to die this way – and has raised fresh questions over the controversial practice.

Nathan Verhelst, born Nancy, gave an interview to a local newspaper hours before his death this week citing his "unbearable psychological suffering" – rather than a terminal or degenerative physical illness – as his reason for dying voluntarily.

"When I looked in the mirror, I was disgusted with myself. My new breasts did not match my expectations and my new penis had symptoms of rejection. I do not want to be... a monster," Verhelst told Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, referencing his double mastectomy and surgery to construct a penis last year.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deathpanels; eussr
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1 posted on 10/06/2013 10:45:00 PM PDT by cunning_fish
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To: cunning_fish

This is scary and disgusting.


2 posted on 10/06/2013 10:50:06 PM PDT by willk
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To: cunning_fish

This person was not dying. In my mind whatever medical personnel were involved in this so-called “euthanasia” should be in prison.


3 posted on 10/06/2013 10:50:31 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: cunning_fish

As long as the state didn’t make the decision or force it...I say let them turn the lights out.


4 posted on 10/06/2013 10:51:56 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: cunning_fish

Maybe if he’d seen a shrink instead of a surgeon it would never have come to this.


5 posted on 10/06/2013 10:58:11 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod (Democrats are Cruz'n for a Bruisin' in 2016.)
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To: cunning_fish

Cut it out.


7 posted on 10/06/2013 11:03:31 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: cunning_fish

So this thing is allowed to mutilate herself and when it goes wrong she/he opts to kill him/herself. Helluva world we got here.

This is what happens when you attempt to cater to a mental illness instead of treating it.


8 posted on 10/06/2013 11:03:52 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: cunning_fish

Well, now he’s as flaccid as his new piness


9 posted on 10/06/2013 11:04:29 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Affirmatively participating in another person’s delusion will not cure their mental illness.


10 posted on 10/06/2013 11:08:36 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: headstamp 2

>>>Verhelst suffered years of emotional pain before and after his sex change operation, including a tormented childhood, he told Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws.

“I was the girl that nobody wanted,” he said. “While my brothers were celebrated, I got a storage room above the garage as a bedroom. ‘If only you had been a boy’, my mother complained. I was tolerated, nothing more.”

Verhelst’s heartless mother agreed with his comments.

“When I saw ‘Nancy’ for the first time, my dream was shattered. She was so ugly. I had a phantom birth. Her death does not bother me,” the unnamed mother told Het Laatste Nieuws following Verhelst’s demise.<<<


11 posted on 10/06/2013 11:09:19 PM PDT by cunning_fish
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To: cunning_fish

That’s terrible. Sounds like child abuse.


12 posted on 10/06/2013 11:19:35 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: cunning_fish

Words fail me.


13 posted on 10/06/2013 11:21:35 PM PDT by DemforBush (Of all the Thompson gunners, Roland was the best.)
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To: cunning_fish

Mercy, is this what is coming?


14 posted on 10/06/2013 11:23:39 PM PDT by Deagle (m)
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To: cunning_fish
The so call compassion that catered to the person whims killed them
15 posted on 10/06/2013 11:38:44 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
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To: tophat9000

Well, yes it is... Is that what you want? Think about all of the alternatives. I can understand those that are terminally ill and dying but...


16 posted on 10/07/2013 12:04:24 AM PDT by Deagle (m)
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To: cunning_fish; Mrs. Don-o; little jeremiah

Ping.

This is not much different than someone who thinks a job change or moving would solve their problems. Their problem is them and they are taking themselves with them where ever they go.

Trapped in a wrong body? Nonsense.


17 posted on 10/07/2013 12:38:18 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of faith....)
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To: cunning_fish

Poor woman.

What a monster she had for a mother. No wonder she had problems.


18 posted on 10/07/2013 12:40:17 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of faith....)
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To: cunning_fish
Reuters 100 percent rating
Genderqueer/Androgynous

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19 posted on 10/07/2013 12:45:05 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: cunning_fish

May she rest in peace.


20 posted on 10/07/2013 12:46:38 AM PDT by nralife
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