Noa Pothoven of Arnhem in the Netherlands is legally euthanised
June 5, 2019 5:58am
Noa Pothoven, a Dutch teenager from Arnhem, has been legally euthanised after suffering a childhood ****. Picture: InstagramSource:Supplied
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Noa Pothoven, 17, has been legally euthanised in the Netherlands, saying the pain she was dealing with after a childhood **** was �insufferable?
Noa, from Arnhem, said in a social media post a day before her death last Sunday that she �breaths but no longer lives?
Noa wrote an autobiography called Winning or Learning, after ***ual assaults and ****s as a small girl led her to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anorexia.
She was attacked three times as a youngster.
The first two incidents were ******ations when she attended children�s parties aged 11 and 12 before she was ****d by two men when she was 14 in the Elderveld neighbourhood of the city.
For years she never revealed the horrific abuse because it left her feeling ashamed, the 17-year-old said.
�I deliberated for quite a while whether or not I should share this, but decided to do it anyway,?she wrote. �Maybe this comes as a surprise to some, given my posts about hospitalisation, but my plan has been there for a long time and is not impulsive.
�I will get straight to the point: within a maximum of 10 days I will die. After years of battling and fighting, I am drained. I have quit eating and drinking for a while now, and after many discussions and evaluations, it was decided to let me go because my suffering is unbearable.?br />
�Out of fear and shame, I relive the fear, that pain every day. Always scared, always on my guard. And to this day my body still feels dirty.
�My house has been broken into, my body, that can never be undone. ?br />
Noa spent her final hours saying goodbye to her heartbroken friends and family.
She asked them to �not convince me that this is not good, this is my decision and it is final.?br />
�Love is letting go, in this case,?she added.
She said her mother Lisette had �always been there for me?- however according to Dutch law, her mum did have a say in her daughter�s decision.
Last year, she revealed that been admitted to hospital in a critical condition after her anorexia had left her organs on the brink of failure.
Doctors placed her into a medically-induced coma to feed her through tubes.
Dutch minister Lisa Westerveld, who first made contact with Noa in December after her newspaper interview, visited the 17-year-old before she was euthanised.
She said: �It was nice to see her again. It is also very unreal. Noa was incredibly strong and very open. I will never forget her. We will continue her struggle. ?br />
Children as young as 12 can opt for euthanasia in the Netherlands but only after a doctor determines that the patient�s pain is unbearable.
Euthanasia is also legal in some US states, Canada and Belgium.
June 5, 2019 5:58am
Noa Pothoven, a Dutch teenager from Arnhem, has been legally euthanised after suffering a childhood ****. Picture: InstagramSource:Supplied
Staff writers
News Corp Australia Network
Noa Pothoven, 17, has been legally euthanised in the Netherlands, saying the pain she was dealing with after a childhood **** was �insufferable?
Noa, from Arnhem, said in a social media post a day before her death last Sunday that she �breaths but no longer lives?
Noa wrote an autobiography called Winning or Learning, after ***ual assaults and ****s as a small girl led her to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anorexia.
She was attacked three times as a youngster.
The first two incidents were ******ations when she attended children�s parties aged 11 and 12 before she was ****d by two men when she was 14 in the Elderveld neighbourhood of the city.
For years she never revealed the horrific abuse because it left her feeling ashamed, the 17-year-old said.
�I deliberated for quite a while whether or not I should share this, but decided to do it anyway,?she wrote. �Maybe this comes as a surprise to some, given my posts about hospitalisation, but my plan has been there for a long time and is not impulsive.
�I will get straight to the point: within a maximum of 10 days I will die. After years of battling and fighting, I am drained. I have quit eating and drinking for a while now, and after many discussions and evaluations, it was decided to let me go because my suffering is unbearable.?br />
�Out of fear and shame, I relive the fear, that pain every day. Always scared, always on my guard. And to this day my body still feels dirty.
�My house has been broken into, my body, that can never be undone. ?br />
Noa spent her final hours saying goodbye to her heartbroken friends and family.
She asked them to �not convince me that this is not good, this is my decision and it is final.?br />
�Love is letting go, in this case,?she added.
She said her mother Lisette had �always been there for me?- however according to Dutch law, her mum did have a say in her daughter�s decision.
Last year, she revealed that been admitted to hospital in a critical condition after her anorexia had left her organs on the brink of failure.
Doctors placed her into a medically-induced coma to feed her through tubes.
Dutch minister Lisa Westerveld, who first made contact with Noa in December after her newspaper interview, visited the 17-year-old before she was euthanised.
She said: �It was nice to see her again. It is also very unreal. Noa was incredibly strong and very open. I will never forget her. We will continue her struggle. ?br />
Children as young as 12 can opt for euthanasia in the Netherlands but only after a doctor determines that the patient�s pain is unbearable.
Euthanasia is also legal in some US states, Canada and Belgium.
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