People seem to just be taking the article at face value and not trying to look into it and question it further. All you know is she suffered sexual abuse for 10 years, you don't know what kind of abuse, physical and mental, how much abuse there was, and the specific long lasting physical and mental effects. Presumably she got help at the age of 15, so she has had 5 years of living with the long-lasting damage of what the abuse caused, while also getting help. You don't know the specifics of what these long-lasting effects are. Presumably she has been to many many doctors, and I don't know the specifics of the Dutch Euthanasia Commission, but given it says her decision was made 2 years ago, I think it's safe to say that to reach this conclusion, there has been a thorough process that she has gone through.
Death is inevitable, you have to make value judgements about whether the state of living is preferable over death. She could physically live up to 100 years or more, but are those 80 years of suffering chronic physical and mental pain worth it? Is it morally right to tell someone they should endure suffering for a further 80 years because you don't believe from an outsided perspective that death is the better alternative? If the answer is no, then don't you think that the best thing to do would be to make the process of death as painless and comfortable as possible?
Of course there is the chance she could improve, that's why it's not a decision to be made lightly, it should not be one where the person is forced to take it only upon themselves to make that decision like many do today because there isn't that avenue they can go through to help them decide if it's the right choice. And I think the best process would be having them go through a rigorous and thorough examination involving many experts, doctors, psychologists to get to that answer.
It's uncomfortable to think that some people are doomed to live their lives in suffering. But some people are, that's life and that's the morbid reality. And if you don't accept that, if you just close your eyes because the thought is too painful, then all your doing is letting that suffering persist.
I admit I'm biased because I'm a veterinarian and I have to make this judgement all the time. But I've seen the regret and anguish in people's faces as they sit with their pet that is barely hanging on as they tell me they wish they had done this sooner, that they hate seeing them this way, they hate watching them suffer. And they're right, of course I don't tell them that, the main thing is that they're there now and doing the right thing. But counselling people that have a terminally ill pet, or pets with chronic painful conditions, there's always the discussion of when it will be the right time.
It just bothers me that people just seem to have these superficial knee-jerk reactions to these topics, because, I don't know, they're afraid of death or the reality of suffering for so many, but like I said, that's life.