He survived the attack at Brussels airport, in May he chose euthanasia at the age of 23

It rarely happens to read a story as sad, distressing and cruel as that of

.

She talks about it again today because a renowned Belgian neurologist returned to the euthanasia case involving this 23-year-old Flemish girl from Antwerp, who survived the 2016 Isis attack on the Brussels-Zaventem airport.

Overwhelmed by the pain, by the traumas suffered and above all by the inability to overcome them, Shanti asked the state of her, which allowed her, to die, to leave the scene forever.

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The 2016 Brussels airport bombing

The facts last May, after years of suffering

It happened last May 7 when, with her parents at the bedside, death freed her from the nightmares that had tormented her for years.

But the news of the disappearance was spread only a few weeks later, when Shanti's mother, interviewed by a Belgian TV, recounted the last years - of pain and agony - of her daughter, surrounded by the affection of the family but unable to escape from the black hole into which she had fallen.

According to local media reports, the young woman had already had

but above

suffered following the explosion of the bomb in the check-in area of ​​the Brussels airport.

Since then, her has been a

, inside and outside psychiatric hospitals,

, stuffed with

and

.

But "maybe there are other solutions besides drugs", confided the 23-year-old, who she described herself "as a ghost that no longer feels anything".

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The 2016 Brussels airport bombing

That damn day six years ago

On

, together with about ninety classmates from his school - the college of Santa Rita di Kontich, in the province of Antwerp -

to celebrate the end of the high school cycle.

But when, at

that morning, the first of the two bombs brought into the airport by the kamikaze bombers exploded

, everything changed forever.

Shanti was

in front of her, a dramatic scenario of death and destruction (

plus the two bombers, and dozens of wounded).

Yet, despite her having survived, the most distressing period began for the young Flemish at the time of 17, made up of depression, abuse, physical and psychological violence that literally devastated her.

Until her most difficult choice, that of

, a desire that was fulfilled on May 7th.

“I laughed and cried until the last day” she left her written on her Facebook profile.

“Now I'm leaving in peace.

Know that I already miss you ”.

I feel like a ghost who no longer feels anything.

But maybe there are other solutions besides drugs.

I laughed and cried until the last day.

Now I'm leaving in peace.

Know that I already miss you

Shanti De Corte

Criticism for a choice deemed "premature"

The case was brought to the headlines due to the recent

by a renowned Belgian neurologist, serving at the Brugman hospital in Brussels, convinced that the decision was premature.

But the federal commission, responsible for monitoring euthanasia, has closed the case for now, stating that the law (144 of 2003) has been fully respected and that the girl "

".