A teenager's suicide and the bravery of D-Day.

Finding a cause worth our lives.

This is Dr. Jim Denison's The Daily Article Podcast for Friday, June 7th, 2019.

The story is not always the story.

National and international news outlets are focusing this morning on the way a Dutch teenager's death

was erroneously reported this week. Noah Potthoven's death was described as the result of

legal euthanasia in the Netherlands. Her family then had to clarify that her death was actually

caused by starvation. However, the emphasis should be less on the reporting of her death than on the

fact that she chose to die.

Noah Pothoven was sexually assaulted at the age of 11, then raped by two men three years later.

She developed post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and eating disorders.

As her health continued to deteriorate, she posted on Instagram. After years of battling and fighting, I am drained. I've quit

eating and drinking for a while now. And after many discussions and evaluations, it was decided to let me go

because my suffering is unbearable. She was being fed through a tube before, as the BBC reports.

Her family accepted her wish to die, so they stopped forcing her to stay alive,

and instead used palliative care to make her final days as peaceful and bearable as possible.

In other news, Sarko is a suicide chamber described by Fast Company as a coffin-sized pod you get

into in order to painlessly and peacefully kill yourself on purpose. The chamber rapidly replaces the oxygen in the pod with nitrogen gas, causing what the

article describes as a quick, painless death.

Physician-assisted suicide is legally available to one in five Americans this morning.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide was the 10th leading

cause of death in America in 2017, claiming more than 47,000 lives.

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