The words I read are your own -- I didn't put them there!
"Sadly, it's true and not new. The Dutch and Belgians have been allowing people to kill themselves for mental health reasons for at least a few decades. It's disgusting and a real failure of their duty to care for their people.
"That story is really sad. She was horribly failed by her doctor's. There's no way they've tried every single remedy available. And what about her boyfriend and cats? Someone has to stop this!"
You have made a judgment, on your own, about what her doctor(s) told her. Do you know everything they tried? Do you know what they didn't try, and that might work? Do you know how long one should keep trying after failure after failure after failure? Yes, you might know that about yourself, but do you know that about everybody else, too?
I'm going to guess you didn't bother to read the article.
"“I’m seeing euthanasia as some sort of acceptable option brought to the table by physicians, by psychiatrists, when previously it was the ultimate last resort,” Stef Groenewoud, a health care ethicist at Theological University Kampen, in the Netherlands, told the outlet.
“I see the phenomenon especially in people with psychiatric diseases, and especially young people with psychiatric disorders, where the health care professional seems to give up on them more easily than before,” she added."
It is very hard to get decent mental health care even in the best of times. It's very stigmatized and usually underfunded. Doctors can be quick to give up on patients and can be very ignorant about these things. I've often felt, myself, that it seems like the government and society (as in its institutions) would be happier if people like me just died, so then they don't have to spend any money on us and so forth.
They also tend to rely on things like antidepressants which don't really work and can cause further problems, especially in long time use. She not only has depression, but borderline personality disorder and autism. BPD points to a history of trauma. There's multiple forms of therapy that can be helpful with people who have BPD and similar issues, and also methods of therapy that are good at processing trauma. There is also psychedelic and ketamine therapy and trans-cranial magnetic stimulation. People with autism are known to have higher suggestibility, as well. Either way, she is a vulnerable person and probably has poor social skills as well as the article mentioning her being socially isolated.
Ultimately, people who committ suicide out of despair due to psychological pain have been failed by society. There's no reason why suicide is inevitable. Mental illness isn't terminal. People who are suicidal due to mental illness are quite simply not thinking rationally. They usually actually believe that the world would be better off without them, which is a delusional belief. It always hurts someone. There's always someone left behind, even if it's just a pet.
As much as it sucks at times, I'm glad the police and doctors didn't just give up on me and took my suicidal feelings and attempts seriously. The point is to try and do all you you can to save a patient. Of course there's the reality of terminal illness and sometimes we must prepare the patient for dying. But it's not like that with mental illness, which are a series of flawed thinking processes. We can always change our thinking if we keep trying and if we get the care we need. Sometimes it's just a gifted clinician or social worker who manages to have a breakthrough with a client who is struggling. It takes real humanity and care.
A society that gives up on a patient and says that what their depression is telling them is true is a cruel, heartless and irrational society that deserves to end.
