She actually committed suicide by refusing to eat and drink.
Yet, children as young as 12 can opt for euthanasia in the Netherlands.
She tried that route.
It was a story too horrible to be true: A 17-year-old victim of sexual assault had been euthanized in the Netherlands.
And indeed, it wasn’t true. Noa Pothoven, a sufferer of anorexia and other mental illnesses, had previously sought euthanasia at a clinic without telling her parents — but she had been refused.
The teenager died at the weekend, several days after she began to refuse all fluids and foods. Her parents and doctors agreed not to force feed her or compel her into treatment against her will.
Tragic. But murder is never the solution for the innocent and the victims.
The euthanasia that wasn’t
It was a story too horrible to be true: A 17-year-old victim of sexual assault had been euthanized in the Netherlands. And indeed, it wasn’t true. Noa Pothoven, a sufferer of anorexia and other mental illnesses, had previously sought euthanasia at a clinic without telling her parents – but she had been refused.