Velvet – Check-out – The woman awaiting euthanasia today hopes for only one thing about her death

As is well known, Dániel Karsai, a constitutional lawyer living in Hungary, is doing everything in order to allow active euthanasia due to his incurable, constant pain, but according to the law in our country, this is incompatible with the right to life. Most recently, the man’s referendum initiative on the subject was also rejected by the Kúria.

Unlike Hungary, active euthanasia is permitted in the Netherlands, and the number of people requesting it is constantly increasing: in 2022, the official figure was 8,720 people. Recently, a 34-year-old woman submitted her request for euthanasia, which will be carried out today, on her 34th birthday, according to her wish.

Jolanda Fun requested euthanasia due to psychiatric problems. According to his confession, he struggles with eating disorders, recurrent depression, autism and learning difficulties, and in social situations he is forced to hide his true feelings, while in his head he is overcome by “darkness, irritability, loneliness and chaos”.

She is reported to have suffered from an eating disorder, recurrent depression, autism and learning difficulties, meaning she would hide her feelings in social situations, which she described as “dark, overstimulated, chaos in my head, loneliness”.

Most of the time I feel very cold. I’m sad, down and gloomy, but people only see a mask that I’ve learned to wear very well over the years

Jolanda Fun, who announced on her Facebook page last year that she is seeking the help of a psychiatrist to go through the procedure for euthanasia, told The Times. As he revealed, depression has been making his life hell since he was seven years old, and since then he has been regularly thinking about death.

“Both my father and mother are sick, they are fighting to stay alive. I want to give up on this life. It’s strange, but when I was seven years old, I asked my mother if I would die if I jumped off a viaduct. I have struggled with such thoughts all my life,” admitted the 34-year-old woman. Although Fun sought therapeutic help several times, he described his life as constant pain. He finally decided on euthanasia two years ago when a counselor told him that Dutch law allowed it for psychiatric reasons.

“The rules are very strict. You can’t just live with the possibility of euthanasia, you have to go a long way. At the same time, it is a dignified death: painless and performed by a doctor. In the meantime, your loved ones can all be there and no one has to find your body in terrible circumstances, and there is no possibility that you end up worse after a failed suicide attempt,” explained Jolanda Fun.

According to Dutch law, a person requesting euthanasia must be mentally competent, have wanted euthanasia for a long time and request it of their own free will. The person must also be informed about all possible alternatives, and it must be established that there is no other reasonable solution to their problem. Your right to end your life must also be confirmed by an independent doctor. Euthanasia must ultimately be performed according to specific guidelines. According to The Times, roughly one in ten euthanasia requests are carried out for psychiatric reasons in the Netherlands.

Jolanda Fun told the newspaper that she was severely bullied and hurt as a child, and her mother’s early requests for help were rejected.

“They say you’re born this way, but I think the emergency services should have paid more attention. It probably wouldn’t have solved everything, but even then…” – the 34-year-old woman was speechless, and when asked what she thought would happen to her after death, she answered:

I hope it’s nothing.

(LADBible)

(Cover image: A woman lying on a hospital bed. Illustration: Getty Images)