Posted on 06/04/2019 9:23:29 PM PDT by ransomnote
A teenager who said she was raped by two men died by legal euthanasia in the Netherlands, it's emerged.
Noa Pothoven made a "sad last post" to social media last week in which she announced she would "die within 10 days".
The 17-year-old detailed her struggles with sexual assault, depression, and anorexia in her award-winning biography "Winning or Learning".
She wrote in her book that she was first assaulted at the age of 11 and raped by two men when she was just 14-years-old, facts she hid from her parents because she was ashamed.
In her last post on Instagram, the young girl wrote that she had stopped eating and drinking and that her suffering was "unbearable."
She wrote that her decision was "final" and that she had not been alive for a while.
"I breathe but no longer live," she wrote.
A patient in the Netherlands may receive physician-assisted suicide if they are "enduring unbearable and unendurable suffering", according to the Dutch life ending clinic the 17-year-old consulted.
Originally the clinic said she was too young, according to Dutch news outlet de Gelderlander's 2018 profile of the teenager.
But legally minors are eligible under certain circumstances.
Pothoven wrote on Instagram last week that after many "conversations and reviews" it had been decided.
In 2017, 6,585 people died of euthanasia in the Netherlands, according to the Dutch Regional Euthanasia Review Committees' most recent report. Pathologists must legally report cases to the review committees.
Most of those people had untreatable cancer.
The Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium are the only countries in the European Union that allow voluntary euthanasia.
Physician-assisted suicide is allowed in Switzerland, where even foreigners are allowed to travel to receive it.
In Finland, there is no penalty for physician-assisted suicide, but in most European countries the topic is hotly debated and the practise is illegal except for under very specific circumstances.
Dutch MP Lisa Westerveld visited Pothoven before her death and said she was impressed by the teenager's strength.
"I will never forget her. We will continue her struggle," Westerveld told Dutch media de Gelderlander.
The teen was a self-described "mental illness warrior".
I see no mention of her parents. Where were they in all this? Or was she made a ward of the state so they couldn’t intervene while the state encouraged her to permit herself to be murdered?
Something truly smells here.
I wonder if there has been any action or demonstration against this by the Dutch themselves. Surely, not all of them are comfortable with a “mercy killing” of a mentally troubled teen.
"...legal euthanasia..."
Arthur Seyss-Inquart mounted a spirited defense at the Nuremberg trials. But his five-year administration of Nazi-conquered Holland was to send him to the gallows. He claimed that his administration eased problems and shortages for the Dutch and he was able to rationalize many of his shocking decisions. After his death sentence he returned to the Roman Catholic Church and received its sacraments.
I first set foot in Holland in 1983 and I loved the place. But these continuing euthanasia cases are absolutely sickening. They constitute, along with American infanticide, a real obvious sign of the death of Western Christian culture.
That’s inaccurate
Not meaning to argue
I wonder if Corrie ten Boom is rolling over in her grave.
That is exactly right. She likely was angry with her attackers. Which it's clearly more important protect diversity then for justice and help for victims.
The Culture of Death
1930s Germany would be proud.
Dear God, please have mercy on this innocent girl’s soul and welcome her into Your heavenly kingdom, in Jesus’ name I pray, amen.
Now, I, am depressed. She’s the same age as my daughter.
While the Dutch punched way above their weight in terms of ensuring 75% of Dutch Jews were killed and enlisting in the Waffen SS at the highest rates of any conquered Western European country, it’s their looting of Jewish assets post-war, that really takes the cake:
One major objection to the Kordes Commission’s conclusions concerns their opinion that it was correct to apply the Dutch inheritance tax laws to the fortunes of the murdered Jews. This subject could become an academic case study. It is a paradigm of how a normal law in a democratic country can become a perverse tool if applied in an extreme situation, particularly against a politically weak community. The Dutch government instituted its inheritance tax laws for a normal society in which the vast majority of people die a natural death. It then used these laws to appropriate money from the estates of a community which it had been unable to protect, 75 percent of whom were murdered over a two- to three-year period.]
People who wonder why European Jews who survived the Holocaust fled to Israel need to understand that European governments systematically looted their possessions in the post-war era. All that many Jews had left were memories. Their property had been stolen in its entirety, and there weren’t any homes to return to. So they took the plunge and left for Israel instead of continuing to struggle in countries hostile to their very existence.
According to a poster on Twitter, this story is false.
The girl requested euthanasia, unbeknownst to her parents, but was refused. Her parents requested shock treatments since psychiatry so far hadn’t helped her. That was refused, because she was too young.
The girl then just quit eating and died.
Incredible faith
Odd that there is no information about the perpetrators.
Or how it came to be that she was raped when she was 11, 12 and 14 years old.
How did it come to be that she was raped when she was 11 years old, 12 years old, AND 14 years old?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noa_Pothoven
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