I understand your concern, but the girl was intubated and had been in life support for multiple organ failure since last Fall. What she did initially was outside of her parents control. She finally died right in their living room in a hospital bed connected to machines.
Pretty sad and awful thing to learn, but I’m unsure of the point in trying to keep this story alive.
It's not just this one girl, Noa Pothoven. Adolescent female anorexia is rampant in the Netherlands, and one in 10 dies of it. One in ten.
Her mother had one time thought she would be best treated at a clinic that specializes in youth psychiatry, "where she can stay and where all her physical and mental problems are addressed," she told the newspaper. But no places were available.
"That's crazy," Pothoven told the Dutch paper. "If you have a serious heart disease, you can undergo surgery within a few weeks. But if you become acutely mentally ill, then they say casually, 'Unfortunately, we are full. Just go on the waiting list.' And you have to know that one in 10 anorexia patients in the Netherlands dies from the consequences of the eating disorder."
And now Noa's case is a being used as a public argument for faster, nicer euthanasia, to spare kids the torture of starvation/dehydration. That's the present, pro-euthanasia spin.
Why keep the story alive?
(1) Because I wanted to report that the hapless Peronist, Francis, finally said the right thing, and
(2) Noa is dead, but now she's the "Savita Halappanavar" for active euthanasia, As Faulkner said, "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past."