This republished article first appeared in the National Review.

Once killing becomes an acceptable answer to human suffering, the kinds of “suffering” that justifies killing continually expands.

In the Netherlands, where mental illness can provide the pretext for being MAIDed and there are no age limits (including infanticide for disability), it was recently reported that a suicidal autistic teenager was lethally injected in 2023. From the National Post story:

Four-and-a-half years after he was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, a Dutch teen was euthanized at his request. The boy, aged between 16 and 18, had described his life as “joyless.” He’d struggled with anxiety and mood-related problems, and where he fit in, in the world. Oversensitive to stimuli, “every day was an ordeal he had to get through,” according to the latest annual report from the Netherlands’ regional euthanasia death review committees. In the final weeks before his death, he lay in bed the whole time.

No word on whether his organs were harvested.

For more on teenagers being killed by Dutch psychiatrists, see Charles Lane’s article in The Atlantic, “When Mentally Ill Teenagers Ask to be Put to Death,” who reports that in 2024, 30 people ages 15 to 29 were killed because of psychological conditions.