Will Belgium grant euthanasia for unwanted sexual attraction?
by Michael Cook, MercatorNet:
A 39-year-old man has requested euthanasia because he fears that he may be a paedophile.
Along with unbearable physical pain, mental suffering, and dementia, a new reason for seeking euthanasia in Belgium has emerged in the media: paedophilia.
The BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire program interviewed a 39-year-old man who has requested a lethal injection because he has intense feelings of attraction to adolescents and young men.
Sébastien (a pseudonym) says that he has been through 17 years of therapy and medication and has come to the end of his tether. He told the BBC that he came from dysfunctional family background, with a strict Catholic upbringing and a mother who had dementia. His father is estranged from the family.
“I was extremely lonely, extremely withdrawn, very inhibited physically – scared to go out, scared of being seen, all the time scared, hugely shy. And growing up, I met a boy and I fell crazy in love. We were both 15. And it was just unbearable for me, you know? I didn’t want to be gay.”
The interviewer never manages to ask Sébastien whether his torment is due to the fact that he is attracted to minors or to men.
In any case, he cannot accept that he might be a homosexual, that he is attracted to people he should not be attracted to. But he has always had morbid thoughts about death, as well. When he discovered that euthanasia was available for psychiatric issues, he applied.
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