I had a business associate name William Cox. Though we never met, we spoke on the phone. William was thirty-two. His best friend “Mark” told me a couple of days ago that William had committed suicide. He’d gone out in his car, parked in the nearby woods, run a garden hose from the exhaust pipe…
Suicide, euthanasia, or plowing ahead?
October 1, 2013
In Belgium you can ask to be euthanized if you’re mentally ill and want to escape it. A forty-four-year-old woman named Ann G. suffered from anorexia nervosa. Psychiatrist Dr. Walter Vandereycken—an internationally renowned expert on anorexia and a sexologist—treated her. He also had sex with her. After Vandereycken was not punished, another psychiatrist euthanized Ann…