Why do you oppose euthanasia, Wesley? If people want to die, we should help them die.
No. And here’s an individual example explaining just one reason why. A deeply depressed woman was about to be lethally injected in the Netherlands — but changed her mind just in the nick of time. From the New York Post story:
Romy, 22, who suffered from clinical depression, eating disorders, and anorexia due to childhood abuse, made the heartbreaking decision to end her life in accordance with legislation in the Netherlands, which allows for euthanasia under certain circumstances.
She decided not to go ahead with it at the very last moment.
After turning 18, Romy campaigned for four years for her right to die via voluntary assisted dying (VAD) to doctors, officials, and her family. But in 2023, when she found herself lying in a hospital bed in the Dutch city of Leiden, she had a sudden change of heart. Earlier that day, she had seen the coffin in which she would be taken to the mortuary.
That would certainly focus one’s attention. At the last second, she decided to live — no thanks to the death doctor:
The doctor stood over her and explained one last time the step-by-step process of what she was going to do as part of the lethal injection process under her country’s euthanasia laws.
Romy gave the doctor the green light, but she was sweating and her heart was pounding as she considered the finality of what was about to happen, she says.
As the doctor stepped up to administer the lethal injection, she was asked one final question to comply with Dutch law — “Are you sure?”
Romy, whose surname has been withheld, was not sure. She started to cry and so did her mother, and she decided to call it all off.
If the date of the killing had been a week earlier, or if she had not seen her soon-to-be coffin, she might not be with us today. […]
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