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A 13-year-old boy from Belgium has become the first person in the world to be cured of a deadly brain cancer. At age six, Lucas Jemeljanova was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a very rare and highly aggressive type of childhood cancer that forms in the brainstem, according…
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A man has tragically died after eating a bowl of reheated pasta and falling extremely ill shortly afterward. The 20-year-old student from Brussels, Belgium - known as AJ - had made the spaghetti dish in tomato sauce five days earlier but had left it in the kitchen at room temperature,…
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A Belgian woman who murdered her five children in 2007 has been euthanized at her own request, 16 years after the horrific crime. Genevieve Lhermitte, 56, had been sentenced to life in prison after killing all five of her children, having slit their throats with a kitchen knife she had…
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A social media influencer who has multiple personality disorders has declared her bid to end her life at a euthanasia clinic. Olympe is a 23-year-old content creator - who goes by the handle @we.are.olympe on Instagram and @LejournaldOlympe on Youtube - and boasts 252K followers and 256K subscribers on the…
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A 23-year-old woman chose to be euthanized earlier this year after struggling with severe trauma following the 2016 terror attack in Brussels. On March 22, 2016, Shanti De Corte was on her way to Italy with some classmates when Islamic State terrorists detonated a bomb at the Brussels international airport.…
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