“This practice was explicitly sanctioned by the Dutch Supreme Court in 1993 in the case of psychiatrist Boutdewijn Chabot, who assisted the suicide of a patient—not because she had cancer, not because she was even physically ill—but because she was in desperate grief over the deaths of her two sons.”
Even more striking was the case where the courts refused to convict a Dutch doctor for his role in euthenising a teenage girl who was suffering from... ANOREXIA. Therefore, she was not terminally ill, indeed, not really physically unhealty, but mentally ill.
She made a video tape, before her death, requesting to be killed, saying that since she was 12 she had anorexia and “had grown very slowly toward my death.” Apparently, the court was very influenced by this tape.
I thought she should have been removed from that doctor’s care, placed in a pyschiatric unit, and given treatment. Instead, she was murdered.
Absolutely right, I have known several people who suffered from anorexia and/or bulimia and ALL of them have been successfully treated.