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Nathan Verheist: A Very Brief Summary

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Nathan Verheist was a Belgian transgender man who was not happy with his life in regards to a sex change that left himself in depression. Nathan decided to end his life by legal lethal injection. Tim Stanley thought he didn't need death to become happy or satisfied with himself but love and compassion from the people around him. Nathan had multiple problems from a young age leading to the person he was such as his mom leaving him and being born into a body he was disgusted by. Belgian laws state a person can be "euthanized" by a doctor if in sense the person is in severe "physical or mental" pain. In 2013 the number of euthanizations jumped 25% and is now the cause of 1 in every 30 deaths in the country. Comparing a similar situation in the

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