(FW) – A 17-year-old who was raped multiple times as a child has been ended her life after doctors agreed that she was going through unbearable emotional anguish. Noa Pothoven had experienced severe post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anorexia ever since the vicious sexual attacks which occurred when she was aged 11, 12 and 14. In some final remarks before her death, the teenager penned one last Instagram post on May 30, in which she explained her reasons for choosing to die. “Within a maximum of 10 days, I will die.
After years of fighting and fighting it is finished,” she wrote in the heartbreaking post. “I have now stopped eating and drinking for a while, and after many conversations and reviews it has been decided that I will be released because my suffering is unbearable.” Under Dutch law, children as young as 12 can be granted the right to die, as long as medical professionals determine that their suffering has reached the threshold of being “unbearable” and their condition has “no prospect of improvement” READ MORE
