The death of Shanti De Corte and the choice of euthanasia
Shanti De Corte23 year old Belgian girl, physically survived but emotionally destroyed fromterroristic attack of the 2016chose theeuthanasia to end his life. There Belgian legislationone of the most liberal in the world, has allowed it.
Shanti De Corte chose euthanasia following the 2016 Isis attack
Shanti De Corte, a girl from Antwerp, miraculously escaped theattack occurred in the airport of Brussels-Zaventemclaimed byIsis. After watching her mates die, the young woman never got over the psychic trauma. Even before, according to local media reports, the girl suffered from psychological issues, psychological problemsbut it is shock with the attack he had aggravated his condition making it unbearable.
On March 22, 2016 Shanti, along with her schoolmates, was leaving for Rome to celebrate the end of the high school cycle. It all happened at 7.58 that morning, when the first of two bombs brought to the airport from kamikaze bombers exploded a few meters from the girl. Shanti miraculously remained unharmed in a landscape full of death And destruction: le victims of the attack on the airport were 16, plus the two bombers and many wounded. Among the dead were also some of his schoolmates. Since then Shanti’s has been a real one Calvaryoutside and inside thepsychiatric hospital: victim of sexual abusepadded with antidepressants And psychotropic drugs.
The choice of euthanasia
Shanti could no longer bear her suffering, as reported by the newspaper “Libero”: “I wake up and take medicine for breakfast, then up to 11 antidepressants a day. Without it I can’t live, but with all these pills I don’t feel anything anymore, I’m a ghost“. He had already tried several times the suicide but the most difficult choice came to fruition on May 7, 2022, now 23, when he said definitively goodbye to life with her parents at the bedside: “It was a life of laughter and tears, until the last day. I loved and I was allowed to know what true love is. I’m leaving in peace. Know that I already miss you “, she wrote on a Facebook post.
Euthanasia challenged by a Belgian neurologist
The case was brought to the fore for the criticisms moved to the granting of euthanasia by a renowned Belgian neurologist, Paul Deltenre; he argued that euthanasia should not have been authorized because some therapeutic options had been made available to the girl to treat post-traumatic stress wounds. But the federal commission The person responsible for monitoring euthanasia has closed the case for now, stating that the law has been fully respected and that the girl “was in such a state of mental suffering that her request was logically accepted”.
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