Belgian woman, 24, granted euthanasia death over depression

My girlfriend intended to suicide herself in December 2014. This was a few months before she met me in March 2015. She's mostly better now.

There are reasons that people feel depressed. American psychiatry does not treat causes, it experiments with drugs that hopefully help the undesired symptoms go away. [1]

I wonder what the mental health system is like in Belgium. If it's anything like the American state-of-the-art, it's ineffective at best.

[1] https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-doctor-isnt-...

That was about 6 months ago. Apparently, she later changed her mind. (I can't find any good sources, though)

When I see things like this, it makes me really think to the root of who we are as people and how depression plays into our role as human beings. I often wish it was possible to provide a genetic "vaccine" to depression in early embryonic stages of human development. If there was some way to encourage growth of 5-HTT alleles (longer alleles equal less prone to depression) we could see people born seemingly "immune" to this state of being.

It seems a little strange that the woman can decide weather to end her life somewhat unilaterally.

Giving such power to her when she is in depression is dangerous to say the least. The what if she recovers question remains.