Zoraya ter Beek, who lives in a small village in the Netherlands , will be 'freed' early next month, she has claimed. She will be euthanized on the sofa in her home with her boyfriend by her side.
A physically healthy 28-year-old woman who suffers from depression and has autism and a borderline personality disorder will end her life with euthanasia, she has said.
Euthanasia has been legal in The Netherlands since 2002 for those experiencing 'unbearable suffering with no prospect of improvement'. When she was just 22, ter Beek opted to get a do not resuscitate badge, something that is typically worn by elderly people. 'I don't see it as my soul leaving, but more as myself being freed from life,' she said of her expected death, admitting: 'I'm a little afraid of dying, because it's the ultimate unknown.Ter Beek has carefully planned her 'liberation', telling the newspaper that she 'will be going on the couch in the living room' and there there will be 'no music' playing.
Ter Beek added: 'Or, in my case, a nice nap, because I hate it if people say,"Safe journey". I'm not going anywhere.' Data revealed that 8,720 people in the Netherlands ended their lives via euthanasia in 2022 - an increase of 14 per cent on the year before. The patient in question must also be deemed to be 'mentally competent' to make the decision to euthanize - something which poses a problem for patients suffering from dementia who request euthanasia but are not said to be of sound mind.
Such an expansion would apply to an estimated five to 10 children per year, who suffer unbearably from their disease, have no hope of improvement and for whom palliative care cannot bring relief, the government said.
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