Q. What kind of people make you ashamed to be a human being?

answered by Sean Kernan, Son of Quora

This.

Is Noa Pothoven, a 17-year-old from The Netherlands.

She was sexually assaulted and raped at multiple points as a girl and young teen. In the wake of those incidents, she began to battle severe depression, PTSD and began suffering from anorexia.

She wrote a popular book on her struggles and became a best selling author.

But that didn't change her mental health state.

She reported not being able to deal with the pain of life any more, every day being as bad or worse than the previous. Anorexia continuing to haunt her.

At 16, she began seeking out an end-of-life clinic to be euthanized (Euthanasia is now legalized in The Netherlands).

Over a year later, and on this past Sunday, the press reported that she had died, having been legally euthanized at the age of 17.

There are two people that make me ashamed for humanity.

One - those who are willing to act on dark fantasies and sexual impulses, with no regard for the people they are destroying.

And two - the reporters who posted this story.

Noa was never euthanized.

She died of complications from starvation. But some reporter thought it would make for a better story to push the teenage euthanasia storyline, and a host of other reporters parroted that article without ever taking a moment to vet those facts.

All false. Welcome to today's pathetic state of journalism. Anything for a click.

QUORA

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