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It's finished: Dutch teen rape survivor ends life with mercy killing
short by Daisy Mowke / on Wednesday, 5 June, 2019
Noa Pothoven, a 17-year-old girl from Netherlands, who was raped as a child, died after being assisted by the state to end her life after a years-long struggle with depression. In an Instagram post shared days before her death, she wrote, "After years of fighting and fighting it is finished." Euthanasia, or mercy killing, is reportedly legal in the country.
read more at RT