Fri Jan 27, 2023 – 3:47 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – A 23-year-old French social media star known as “Olympe” triggered an avalanche of press articles and debate when she announced that she would travel to Belgium before the end of the year for assisted suicide. The young woman, who has over 255,000 followers on YouTube and up to 900,000 views on TikTok for some of her videos, claimed that her dissociative identity disorder has become too distressing and that she wants to die. But not yet – the young woman intends to enjoy a number of things she judges life still has in store for her before stepping out of this world.
Is this a realistic option? A Belgian doctor who acknowledges that he performs about one euthanasia per month, Yves De Locht, answered an interview by the French daily Le Parisien earlier this week in which he said that “Olympe” has in no way completed the lengthy screening by doctors and psychiatrists required under Belgian law in order to obtain euthanasia or medically assisted suicide for mental health reasons. He said the process usually takes months and even years and complained that “false impressions” pushed
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