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Physically Healthy Dutch Woman Ends Her Life Through Assisted Suicide
Townhall ^ | 06/03/2024 | Madeline Leesman

Posted on 06/03/2024 8:57:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

A physically healthy 29-year-old Dutch woman ended her life through assisted suicide due to crippling depression and other issues.

According to multiple outlets, officials in the Netherlands gave Zoraya ter Beek, 29, final approval to die by assisted suicide on the grounds of unbearable mental suffering. Ter Beek first applied for euthanasia in 2020.

Ter Beek reportedly died last week.

As Townhall previously reported, Ter Beek previously aspired to be a psychiatrist, but “was never able to muster the will to finish school or start a career,” she explained in an interview with The Free Press. She suffered from depression, as well as autism and borderline personality disorder.

At one point, a mental health professional reportedly told Ter Beek, “There’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better.” 

At the time, Stef Groenewoud, a healthcare ethicist at Theological University Kampen, in the Netherlands, told The Free Press, “I’m seeing euthanasia as some sort of acceptable option brought to the table by physicians, by psychiatrists, when previously it was the ultimate last resort.” 

“I see the phenomenon especially in people with psychiatric diseases, and especially young people with psychiatric disorders, where the healthcare professional seems to give up on them more easily than before,” Groenewoud added.

Theo Boer, a healthcare ethics professor at Protestant Theological University in Groningen, told the outlet that he served on a euthanasia review board in the Netherlands for ten years before resigning.

“I entered the review committee in 2005, and I was there until 2014,” Boer told the outlet. “In those years, I saw the Dutch euthanasia practice evolve from death being a last resort to death being a default option.”



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: euthanasia; holland; netherlands
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1 posted on 06/03/2024 8:57:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Peak post-modernism


2 posted on 06/03/2024 8:59:32 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

The Nazis won.


3 posted on 06/03/2024 8:59:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Terrible.


4 posted on 06/03/2024 8:59:44 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: BlackVeil

Sad….and depressing .

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5 posted on 06/03/2024 9:03:11 PM PDT by Mears
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To: SeekAndFind

Hello, suicide hotline, i feel like I want to kill myself.

Suicide hotline: good news, we can help you do that.


6 posted on 06/03/2024 9:03:20 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: PGR88

This won’t be the peak, unfortunately.


7 posted on 06/03/2024 9:22:07 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: SeekAndFind

Waited 4 years. Without this program, she would likely have muddled through life, maybe found a life partner, had kids. Just mind-boggling that a country with a shrinking population has a program like this.


8 posted on 06/03/2024 9:27:42 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: SeekAndFind

Next, it will be legal to put pre-assisted suicide people under anesthesia and harvest their organs before they are snuffed.

You read it here first.


9 posted on 06/03/2024 9:39:35 PM PDT by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: Reddy

And slipping “Want to end the pain?” pamphlets under the door of neighbors, relatives you don’t care for


10 posted on 06/03/2024 9:57:51 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: HerrBlucher

‘’I get no respect I tell ya! I called the suicide hotline. They put me on hold!’’


11 posted on 06/03/2024 10:11:05 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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“She suffered from depression, as well as autism and borderline personality disorder.”

In America she would have been told she was really a man and put on testosterone and given a double mastectomy and take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

12 posted on 06/03/2024 10:18:48 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Solve your vitamin B1, B12, D, and Zinc deficiencies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


13 posted on 06/03/2024 11:12:05 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: SeekAndFind

[At one point, a mental health professional reportedly told Ter Beek, “There’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better.”]

Well, don’t give her a Bible and give her any hope for Eternity or anything like that.

Too late. Sadly.


14 posted on 06/03/2024 11:19:14 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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She was murdered.


15 posted on 06/04/2024 12:11:33 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: SeekAndFind

Tell suicide potentials ‘if you think life sucks, wait until you get to hell’


16 posted on 06/04/2024 3:02:48 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: Gene Eric

Murdered by DEPOPULATION advocates getting paid by government. Horrific.


17 posted on 06/04/2024 3:42:20 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is what happens when you sit at home all day watching TV shows like “Da View” and Rachel Madcow.


18 posted on 06/04/2024 5:04:52 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When did WE decide to make America a UN 5-Star Asylum Paradise for Socialist losers?)
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To: SeekAndFind

MOST DECENT countries have Suicide Hotlines to PREVENT suicides NOT pimp them like the “Season Finale” of people’s lives.


19 posted on 06/04/2024 5:10:37 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When did WE decide to make America a UN 5-Star Asylum Paradise for Socialist losers?)
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To: PGR88

Kinda contradicts arguments for natural selection as a means of evolving the species.


20 posted on 06/04/2024 5:51:33 AM PDT by xoxox
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