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A 24-year-old woman in Belgium has been approved for euthanasia due to severe depression.<\/p>\n

According to Nieuwsblad<\/a>, Elien Vervaet said her fear of never being successful in theatre led to her depression; six years ago, she went to take a drama course, for which the entrance exam was too difficult. \u201cA year later I played in a play by Theater Antigone. That’s where I felt how much I would like to do that,” she said. “But the realization that I could never do it as a job made me very unhappy. And that feeling has remained.”<\/p>\n

Three years into her depression, she applied for euthanasia. It was approved this year by two psychiatrists and a doctor from Vonkel. “Since then I’ve been saying goodbye,” she said. “For many people that is strange: I will never see them again. That remains a strange thought, but it doesn’t scare me off.”<\/p>\n

Vervaet was euthanized<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n

Her story is far from rare; another young woman was euthanized<\/a> last year, after suffering PTSD following an ISIS terrorist attack. She also had been sexually assaulted, and had made two prior suicide attempts. \u201cThis is a deeply tragic case of a young woman who has suffered so much, and it is beyond belief that she was given a lethal injection to deal with this trauma rather than the further psychological support that she clearly needed,\u201d Right To Life UK spokesperson Catherine Robinson said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since euthanasia was legalized in 2002, over 27,000 people<\/a> have been killed in Belgium. And the number continues to rise; in 2022, euthanasia deaths rose by nearly 10%<\/a>, and accounted for 2.5% of all deaths in Belgium.<\/p>\n

Robinson previously said that cases like these send a grim message. “That death is the only way out,” she said. “This is a deeply tragic view of life and suffering and it actively encourages this sort of thinking in people who are suffering the most.”<\/p>\n

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