EXCLUSIVE: Woman, 23, who survived 2016 Brussels airport ISIS bomb but could not live with the trauma is 'euthanised' in Belgium
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... lgium.htmlShanti De Corte opted to be euthanised amid enduring mental health struggles after Brussels attacks in 2016
She was 17 when she narrowly escaped the Brussels terror attacks in 2016 and left psychologically scarred
Shanti emerged physically unhurt but suffered with significant depression and PTSD, twice attempting suicide
The 23-year-old was euthanised earlier this year, a procedure legal in Belgium under strict conditions...
...Euthanasia, defined as the practice of intentionally ending a person's life to relieve pain and suffering, is legal in Belgium for an individual who is in 'a medically futile condition of constant and unbearable physical or mental suffering that cannot be alleviated, resulting from a serious and incurable disorder caused by illness or accident'.
Shanti's formal request to be euthanised was approved earlier this year by two psychiatrists, according to RTBF.
'The woman was euthanised on May 7, 2022, surrounded by her family,' the report said.
In one final touching post on social media the day she was euthanised, Shanti wrote: 'I was laughing and crying. Until the last day. I loved and was allowed to feel what true love is.
'Now I will go away in peace. Know that I miss you already.'
The case may not yet be closed, however, as Antwerp prosecutors began an investigation after receiving complaints from a neurologist at the UZC Brugman academic clinical hospital in Brussels who said the decision to euthanise Shanti 'was made prematurely.'
The Federal Commission for the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia in Belgium had no concerns over the case, but neurologist Paul Deltenre argued that there were still different modalities of care and treatment available to Shanti that were not tried, according to RTBF.
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