Cenk Uygur
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Should Depressed People Be Allowed To Kill Themselves?
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July 5, 2015
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7:23Now Playing"A 24-year-old Belgian woman who suffers from depression and has had a "death wish" since childhood has been granted the right to die — even though she's not terminally ill.
Doctors gave the young woman, identified only as Laura, the go-ahead to be euthanized by lethal injection after she spent her life battling suicidal thoughts, she told Belgian newspaper De Morgen.
"Life, that's not for me," she said. "Death feels to me not as a choice. If I had a choice, I would choose a bearable life, but I have done everything and that was unsuccessful."
Laura, who entered a psychiatric institution when she was 21, said her alcohol father and troubled childhood contributed to her longtime "death wish.""
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Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?!) & John Iadarola (Think Tank) of the Young Turks break it down.
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