By: Laura Meyers
A healthy 24-year-old woman in Belgium is scheduled to die later this summer by euthanasia, because ever since childhood, she has simply wanted to die.
“Life is not for me,” the woman, Laura, has told reporters.
In Belgium, euthanasia is permitted when a psychiatrist cites that a person’s psychological pain cannot be relieved in a manner acceptable to the individual.
Laura has a dysfunctional childhood environment as her mother left when she was only one-year-old and her father was an abusive alcoholic.
When she was only six-years-old, Laura says she began thinking about suicide.
“That thought was very conscious in kindergarten. I was sitting there are the time and I thought, what am I doing here? Or as I was leaving my grandfather for school I thought, ‘I don’t want to be walking here; I don’t want to live at all,’” Laura said.
When she was a teenager, she started cutting herself. After spending time in a mental hospital, she went on to study acting and made a home for herself.
Despite everything, Laura has set the date for her death. She’s planned her own funeral, written songs, and a booklet for it.
She has asked that “Comes and Goes (in Waves) by Greg Laswell be played.
Belgium’s federal euthanasia commission reports 50-60 psychiatric patients are euthanized each year.
Well, I think you have the right, but you will be missed. Even if I never met you. Because what matters is that I could have.
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