‘I can’t do this anymore’

Ter Beek, who lives in the small town of Oldenzaal, claims her psychiatrist advised her: “there’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better.”

Suggesting there’s no “prospect of improvement”, the woman told The Free Press in that she scheduled a date with death in early May.

“I was always very clear that if it doesn’t get better. I can’t do this anymore,” she said in her interview, which ran April 1, 2024.

The procedure, she explains, will happen on the couch at home, with her boyfriend nearby and “no music” playing in the background.