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  • Dutch Teenager’s Death Sets Off Debate, and Media Corrections (Noa Pothoven was not euthanized)

    06/06/2019 5:17:15 PM PDT · by Drew68 · 25 replies
    NY Times ^ | 06/06/19 | Iliana Magra
    LONDON — By the time she was 17, the Dutch teenager had written a harrowing memoir recounting repeated sexual assaults and her subsequent experience with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anorexia. Last year, when she was 16, she approached an end-of-life clinic in the Netherlands seeking euthanasia or assisted suicide, but was rejected because her parents had been unaware of her request and she needed their permission, according to a local newspaper profile published in December. When her sister announced that the teenager, Noa Pothoven, had died at 17 early Sunday morning — without revealing where or how — the...
  • Noa Pothoven: Raped girl, 17, dies by legal euthanasia in the Netherlands

    06/04/2019 9:23:29 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 38 replies
    euronews.com ^ | 04/06/2019 | Lauren Chadwick
    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,...