{"id":310803,"date":"2024-04-25T12:53:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=310803"},"modified":"2024-04-24T11:56:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:56:34","slug":"dutch-autistic-woman-euthanized-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dutch-autistic-woman-euthanized-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch autistic woman set to be euthanized because she feels ‘sad and gloomy’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A healthy woman in her 30s is being euthanized in the Netherlands because she is autistic and suffers from depression.<\/p>\n

Jolanda Fun told the Sunday Times<\/a> that she is planning to die on April 25th, and has already pre-planned her own funeral. \u201cBorn from love, let go in love,\u201d is the phrase featured in funeral cards she designed. \u201cAfter a hard-fought life, she chose the peace she so longed for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fun has a number of mental health issues, including an eating disorder, depression, autism and mild learning difficulties. \u201cDark, overstimulation, chaos in my head, loneliness,” she said of how she feels inside.<\/p>\n

She further said she has never been able to keep a job, and that therapies have not helped her. Though she has a loving family and supportive friends, it has made no difference. \u201cMost of the time I just feel really sh*tty,\u201d she said. \u201cSad, down, gloomy. People don\u2019t see it, because that\u2019s the mask I put on and that\u2019s what you learn to do in life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Committing suicide has been a lifelong goal for her. \u201cMy father is sick, my mother is sick, my parents are fighting to stay alive, and I want to step out of life,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s a bit strange. But even when I was seven, I asked my mother whether, if I jumped from a viaduct, I would be dead. I\u2019ve been struggling with this my whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n