A 23-year-old woman who survived the Brussels airport terror attack has died having chosen to be euthanized after she suffered from “severe depression and PTSD” in the wake of the incident.
“Shanti De Corte, 23, was at a Belgian airport with her school classmates in March 2016 when Islamic State terrorists set off a bomb.
Shanti, who was 17 at the time, escaped the explosion, which along with two other blasts, killed 32 people and left more than 300 others injured.
The then teenager didn’t suffer any physical wounds in the blasts.
But the psychological effects left her suffering from constant panic attacks and periods of depression from which she couldn’t break free of.
Shanti underwent rehabilitation treatment at a psychiatric hospital in her home town of Antwerp, Belgium, and took a number of anti-depressant medications to help her.
Sadly though, she was unable to shake off her dark thoughts and tried to kill herself on two occasions in 2018 and 2020.
The troubled woman then opted to be euthanized earlier this year – a procedure which is legal in Belgium– and died on May 7, 2022, after two psychiatrists approved her request.
Shanti’s story was highlighted earlier this week when her mum, Marielle, revealed her daughter’s pain on Belgian outlet VRT.
Marielle said: ‘That day really cracked her, she never felt safe after that. She didn't want to go anywhere where other people were, out of fear. She also had frequent panic attacks and she never got rid of it’.
Shanti often took to social media to detail her experiences following the bombing and spoke of her battle with her declining mental health.
She said in one post: ‘I get a few medications for breakfast. And up to 11 antidepressants a day. I couldn't live without it.
“With all the medications I take, I feel like a ghost that can't feel anything anymore. Maybe there were other solutions than medications’.
According to Shanti’s school psychologist she had been suffering from severe depression before she opted to end her life.
She told RTFB: ‘There are some students who react worse than others to traumatic events. And having interviewed her twice, I can tell you that Shanti De Corte was one of those fragile students’.
The psychologist referred Shanti to a psychiatric hospital in Antwerp, where she regularly got treatment.
Shanti, though, tried to kill herself in 2018 after her mental health deteriorated following an altercation with another patient who sexually assaulted her.
Another unsuccessful attempt to take her own life occurred two years later, and following that, contacted an organization that defends the right to ‘death with dignity’.
RTBF reported she asked the organization to perform euthanasia due to ‘unbearable psychiatric suffering’.
In Belgium, euthanasia – defined as the practice of intentionally ending a person’s life to relieve pain and suffering – is legal 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’.
According to RTBF, Shanti’s request to be euthanized was approved earlier this year by two psychiatrists.
The report said: ‘The woman was euthanized on May 7, 2022, surrounded by her family’”. -Jon Rodgers, U.S. Sun
Belgium legalized medically-assisted euthanasia in 2002. In February 2014, the law was changed to enable doctors to end the lives of children at any age.
The gradual shift from assisted suicide to euthanasia, from euthanasia of the terminally ill to euthanasia of those who are chronically ill, from euthanasia for physical illness to euthanasia for mental illness, from euthanasia for mental illness to euthanasia for psychological distress or mental suffering, has continued to progress from voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia.
As one would shudder to imagine, the organs of people killed by euthanasia in Belgium are being harvested for transplant surgery, a report revealed.
“A quarter of all lung transplants in Belgium are from people killed by lethal injection.
The study, led by Dirk van Raemdonck a surgeon from Leuven, found doctors preferred lungs taken from those who die through euthanasia as they are in a far superior condition to those from people killed in accidents.
The paper showed about 23.5 percent of lung transplant donors and 2.8 percent of heart transplant donors are killed by euthanasia.
Mr. Van Raemdonck insisted doctors were acting within Belgian guidelines on euthanasia, which was legalized in 2002.
All of the donors had given their consent.
The report showed ‘donors were admitted to hospital a few hours before the planned euthanasia procedure’.
They were given the lethal injection, died and then used for organ retrieval.
The paper revealed Eurotransplant, a coordination group for transplants in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Slovenia, is devising protocols for ‘organ donation and transplantation after euthanasia’.
Dr. Peter Saunders, of Care Not Killing, an umbrella group of more than 50 British medical, disability and religious charities opposed to euthanasia, said he was shocked by the report.
‘I was amazed at how nonchalantly the issue was dealt with as if killing patients and then harvesting their organs was the most natural thing in the world’, he said.
‘Given that half of all euthanasia cases in Belgium are involuntary it must be only a matter of time before the organs are taken from patients who are euthanized without their consent.
‘The matter of fact way the retrieval process is described in the paper is particularly chilling and shows the degree of collaboration that is necessary between the euthanasia team and the transplant surgeons - prep them for theatre next to the operating room, then kill them and wheel them in for organ retrieval. All in a day’s work in Brave New Belgium’.
He added: ‘Doctors there now do things that those in most doctors in other countries would find absolutely horrific’.
The report comes just a year after researchers found a high proportion of deaths classified as euthanasia in Belgium have involved patients who have not requested their lives to be ended by a doctor.
A fifth of nurses interviewed by researchers from the Canadian Medical Association Journal admitted that they had been involved in the euthanasia of a patient - but also found that nearly half of these – 120 of 248 - admitted to participating in ‘terminations without request or consent’.
Belgium became the second in the world after the Netherlands to legalize euthanasia since the fall of Nazi Germany. Euthanasia now accounts for two percent of all deaths in the country”. -UK Daily Mail
I suppose once the medical community did away with the Hippocratic Oath in favor of feticide, it didn’t take long before doctors started killing fully grown adults.
Now that the maxim “First do no harm” has been rejected in the age of legal abortion and socialized medicine, assisted suicide and involuntary euthanasia being made sanctioned is an assured inevitability.