Well this story really has affected me and I feel so sad
about it. In Holland, a seventeen-year-old girl has been allowed to die after
being abused since a child and raped. Doctors said she was too depressed to ever
get over what had happened to her. Two, Doctors agreed that euthanasia was the
best outcome for this child, and after all, that is what she was, a child of
17.
What happened to her was horrific and lifechanging to her
mind, unforgiven but please, she was a young person. What happens next, kids
who can’t stand the pressure of exams are going to go for euthanasia? Yes, her
case was more serious than exams, but kids do commit suicide with exam pressures.
Every 90 minutes in the UK, one person commits suicide. It doesn’t
discriminate. All walks of life from builders to Surgeons to teachers to those
without jobs. Millionaires to famous people who on the outside look happy and
appear to have it all!
The young girl Noa, had previously attended an award for her
book and she said there is no help in Holland for those young people who need
help like she did. Last year she was admitted to hospital as her organs were
failing.
OK I continued to be shocked angry and upset by learning
that kids as young as 12, you read that correctly, 12, can be euthanised, as
long as a doctor says their life has no clear resolution in sight. How on earth
can a Doctor know what that person’s future may be? That girl had a dreadful
start. A lot of people have, but we learn to live with it. It hurts and we do
suffer forever but we also have very good times in life. this girl had a future
with the right help. The Netherlands really needs to get a grip, what I can’t find
out is do the parents have a say? Looks like no, looks like the Doctors choose
whether children can be killed. It’s despicable.
The girl did die though at home with her Mum. Poor poor
baby.
If you live in the UK, some contacts if you need someone to
talk with.
· CALM, www.thecalmzone.net,
0800 585 858
· Heads
Together, www.headstogether.org.uk
· Mind, www.mind.org.uk,
0300 123 3393
· Papyrus,
www.papyrus-uk.org, 0800 068 41 41
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