"Teenage Euthanasia?"

Though it was widely reported that a 17-year old Dutch girl was legally euthanized in a Netherlands "end-of-life" clinic, it turns out it isn't true. The girl, Noa Pothoven starved herself to death after her request for euthanasia was denied. She died at home after saying goodbye to family and friends.

Officially 'euthanasia'? No--this took a lot longer.

"Children as young as 12 can opt for euthanasia in the Netherlands, but only after a doctor determines that the patient's pain is unbearable," reports news.com.au

Noa Pothoven's pain? Depression.

In a social media post before her death, she wrote,

"I will get straight to the point: within a maximum of 10 days I will die. After years of battling and fighting, I am drained. I have quit eating and drinking for a while now, and after many discussions and evaluations, it was decided to let me go because my suffering is unbearable."

Noa said the trauma of being raped as a young girl of 14 made her feel she couldn't keep living. She tried for 3 years.

While her death wasn't official euthanasia, her parents and doctors agreed not to force feed her.

The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg are the only places it is legal to euthanize children, but assisted suicide is legal in Canada, along with the U.S. states of: Oregon, Washington, California, Colorado, Vermont, Hawaii, Washington D.C. and on August 1st, New Jersey.

According to Charles Foster, Research Associate at Oxford University,

"Assuming euthanasia's the only way to end suffering is untrue. Given modern palliative care, there is simply no need for euthanasia. Depression and other psychiatric problems can be treated and are too subjective, especially in children, to euthanise. If the law allows professional care-givers to become professional executioners, the medical profession will also be dangerously and irrevocably changed."

Even Dutch psychiatrist Boudewijn Chabot, whose lawsuit made assisted suicide legal in the Netherlands for those suffering with depression, now has second thoughts.

"The Euthanasia Law does not provide protection to people with dementia and psychiatric problems," he said. "Silently, the foundation of the law is being eroded." Chabot also said he fears the skyrocketing number of "incapacitated" people being "surreptitiously" killed are without proof of consent. In fact, one video showed an Alzheimer's' patient struggling while her family held her down so the doctor could inject her.

"I don't see how we can get the genie back in the bottle. It would already mean a lot if we'd acknowledge he's out,"Chabot said.

A wise man once said: "We live in what is sometimes described as a "culture of death". Abortion on demand has been practiced for decades. Now some are seriously proposing infanticide. And euthanasia is promoted as a viable means of solving various social and financial problems. This focus on death as an answer to the world's problems is a total reversal of the biblical model. Death is an enemy (1 Corinthians 15:26). Life is a sacred gift from God (Deuteronomy 30:19). Euthanasia spurns the gift and embraces the curse. When given the choice between life and death, God told His people to "choose life" (Deuteronomy 30:19). -- Got Questions.org

"You shall not murder" -- Exodus 20:13

"Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in His own image" -- Genesis 9:6

"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body" --1 Corinthians 6:19

"Come to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" --Matthew 11:25

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