astro
October 7, 2013, 4:56am
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A sad tale, but I did not realize you can get personal euthanasia in Belgium on demand if you are psychologically tormented. I did not realize this was an option in European euthanasia.
Belgian killed by euthanasia after a botched sex change operation
Nathan, born Nancy, Verhelst, 44, was given legal euthanasia, most likely by lethal injection, on the grounds of “unbearable psychological suffering” on Monday afternoon.
Wim Distelmans, a cancer specialist who carried out the euthanasia, is the same doctor who late last year gave lethal injections to congenitally deaf twins who were frightened they were also going blind.
“I was the girl that nobody wanted,” Mr Verhelst told Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper in the hours before her death.
“While my brothers were celebrated, I got a storage room above the garage as a bedroom. ‘If only you had been a boy’, my mother complained. I was tolerated, nothing more.”
Such a sad, sad story. I don’t approve of euthanasia but I hope he (she?) is at peace.
Nava
October 7, 2013, 2:57pm
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“He” would be the correct pronoun.
His mom is a cow. At least Nathan is not suffering any more.