A physically healthy 23-year-old young Belgian woman was just legally euthanized because she suffered from "mental trauma" after surviving an ISIS terror attack in 2016.
From Fox News:
A 23-year-old Belgian woman who survived a deadly Islamic State bombing of a Brussels airport opted to die by euthanasia after years of mental health issues stemming from the attack.
"That day really cracked her, she never felt safe after that," Shanti De Corte's mother, Marielle, told Belgian news station VRT of her daughter's struggles since the 2016 ISIS attack on Brussels Airport in Zaventem, according to a recent report by the Daily Mail.
De Corte was a 17-year-old student traveling with classmates when terrorists affiliated with ISIS detonated a bomb in the airport in March 2016. She was walking through the departures lounge when the explosion rocked the airport, killing 33 people and wounding an additional 340.
She was physically unharmed from the attack but mentally couldn't get over it. Which shouldn't be a big surprise. Anyone would be shaken up in a similar situation.
But she's allowed to kill herself because of this, and doctors thought ending her life was the best way to help her?
(Psychiatrists granted her permission and a physician assisted in the killing.)
What a tragedy.
Belgium and the Netherlands are more permissive with euthanasia than other countries where the practice is legal, allowing patients who suffer from mental illness to choose to be euthanized.
The De Corte euthanasia was approved by two psychiatrists earlier this year after she struggled for years with anxiety and depression. She attempted suicide in 2018 and 2020, and regularly posted to social media about her struggles with mental health.
