A woman has been granted the right to die on Belgium, though she is not suffering from a terminal or life-threatning illness. The 24-year-old, known simply as Laura, suffers from depression and has spent most of her teen and adult life dealing with "suicidal thoughts," she told Belgian media. She has previously tried to kill herself and told journalists, "death feels to me not as a choice. If I had a choice, I would choose a bearable life, but I have done everything and that was unsuccessful."

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I don't know how to feel about this at all.

Originally posted by Ryuuchan_X Everyone should have the right to die if they want to. I always thought it was dumb how they only let people with life threatening illnesses die.

Originally posted by Reader I agree, but if a treatable illness is causing those suicidal thoughts/behaviours, it makes so much more medical sense to treat the problem than to end the life. If the sufferer had all their mental faculties back in shape through treatment, the suicidal feelings would cease.

This sets a really bad precedence. There are a lot of depressed individuals out there and I feel like sometimes people have suicidal thoughts but do not play it out because of how ultimately difficult it is to kill oneself. If this allows people to kill themselves with little to no pain/effort, I feel like people who choose to undergo this might regret it.

At least when you're killing yourself, there are always potential that you might not die, but this seems to be pretty effective There are stories of people who try to overdose but wake up the next morning and realizing that they don't want this to happen.

Originally posted by jonasha This sets a really bad precedence. There are a lot of depressed individuals out there and I feel like sometimes people have suicidal thoughts but do not play it out because of how ultimately difficult it is to kill oneself. If this allows people to kill themselves with little to no pain/effort, I feel like people who choose to undergo this might regret it. At least when you're killing yourself, there are always potential that you might not die, but this seems to be pretty effective There are stories of people who try to overdose but wake up the next morning and realizing that they don't want this to happen.

I'm just saying in general. They might feel a certain way but when push comes to shove, they might change their mind and it might be too late.

Depression should be treated. Death is a last resort, if nothing can be done. I don't believe that's the case in a country such as Belgium, there should be mandatory visits to therapists in that case.

Originally posted by devotedtokesha She is not healthy.

Originally posted by Thor She is obviously not healthy.

Originally posted by MissedTheTrain Obviously not healthy.

Originally posted by -Camy- From beyond the grave?