‘I Am Asking for Help, Not Death!’: Dutch Mental Health Patient Angry Over Euthanasia Offer

(The Christian Institute) — A Dutch mental health patient has shared how she was “overwhelmed and angry” when her new psychiatrist offered her euthanasia during her first appointment.

Manon, who was seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder, was told she met the criteria to be euthanized.

She said, “I was suicidal, but I was looking for the help that I had actually never obtained: help for the core of my deepest pain and sorrow, my trauma, my post-traumatic stress disorder.” …

“Yes, I’m broken, but I want to become whole again. I’m asking for help to get better, not for death!”

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