Young man decides to undergo euthanasia due to mental problems

MEXICO CITY.- Zoraya ter Beek She is Dutch and 28 years old, she is in love and lives with her two kittens. However, she has decided to undergo euthanasia due to mental health problems that she describes as unbearable. Her case has sparked controversy.

In accordance with The New York Post, Ter Beek, aspired to be a psychiatrist. However, all his life he has had to deal with your mental health. Suffers depression, autism and disorder personality limit.

The young woman explained that decided to end his suffering and will undergo euthanasia next May after doctors told him: “There is nothing more we can do for you. Your situation will never improve“.

Therefore, despite being in love with her 40-year-old partner and loving her kittens, she opted for euthanasia, a legal procedure in Netherlands since 2002.

Ter Beek plans to be cremated after euthanasia on the sofa in her living room. “There will be no music,” she said, nor a funeral.

The young woman he doesn’t have much family and asked her boyfriend to spread her ashes in “a nice place in the forest” that they have chosen.

“I’m a little afraid of dying, because it’s the most unknown thing,” he admitted. That, she said, is the only thing she’s afraid of.

She is just one of a growing number of people who would rather die than continue living with pain that, unlike a terminal illness, could be treated. AND His case has sparked controversy.

“I see euthanasia as a kind of acceptable option that doctors, psychiatrists put on the table, when before it was the last resort,” Stef Groenewoud, a health ethicist at the Theological University of Kampen (Netherlands), told Free Press. .

“I see the phenomenon especially in people with psychiatric illnesses, and especially in young people with psychiatric disorders, in which the health professional seems to give up more easily than before,” he added.

But Ter Beek says that only she knows her suffering and the unbearable it is. And she is sure of one thing: that that’s not life and it’s time to put an end to it.

Euthanasia in the Netherlands

Euthanasia is an increasingly popular option in the Netherlands. In 2022, there will be 8,720 deaths by this method, representing approximately 5% of all deaths in the country and an increase of 4% compared to the previous year, according to Dutch media.

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