A Dutch woman who said she struggled with lifelong chronic depression and other mental health issues has been granted permission for euthanasia. Officials in the Netherlands recently approved 29-year-old Zoraya ter Beek’s three-and-a-half year quest for assisted dying. Dutch law states euthanasia is legal for a person “experiencing unbearable suffering with no prospect of improvement and the attending physician fulfills the statutory due care criteria.” In addition to experiencing chronic depression, ter Beek has also been diagnosed with anxiety, trauma, unspecified personality disorder, and a…
