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Woman, 90, dies from coronavirus in Belgium after refusing a ventilator

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A 90-year-old woman died after refusing a ventilator and asking if it could instead be used to save someone younger. Suzanne Hoylaerts was admitted to hospital two weeks after she started experiencing shortness of breath and a loss of appetite.

The Belgian woman, from Binkom, near Lubbeek, tested positive for coronavirus and was placed in isolation. It was there that her condition quickly deteriorated.

When doctors suggested attaching Ms Hoylaerts to a ventilator to help her breath, she refused. She reportedly told doctors at the hospital: "I don't want to use artificial respiration.

Save it for younger patients. "I already had a good life." Ms Hoylaerts died two days after being admitted to the hospital. Her daughter Judith told Dutch

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