The prehistory of the applicant is channeled between the international border connections (from home to the visiting doctor) and their authenticity in the exercise of 'competent' personal will, depends on the site itself: “ rather, the tourist is an active public who 'searches for meaning, drawing on the “bricolage” of systems of meaning (Levi-Strauss 1966) that constitutes the cultural baggage that one brings with him into every situation'” (Jenkins 2003, 314- 15). In the case study of Godelieva de Troyer, it is not unreasonable to suggest that places like Dignitas are synonymous with phenomena that occur in major tourist destinations. People with major depressive disorder are in a perpetual process of self-destruction: “[a]ccording to Casteur, a second concluded that she could still be helped; the psychiatrist observed that when Godelieva spoke about her grandchildren she became emotional and expressed doubts about her decision to die” (Aviv 2015). Upon learning of his situation, Dr. W. Distelmans granted de Troyer's wish. Here there is an absence of the pleasure normally sought in death, de Troyer's previous indecision indicative of suicidal ideation rather than premeditated euthanasia. Suicides involving family relationships cannot bear the thought of pain they may have caused to their loved ones, and are spurred by the inability to improve due to some hopeless "deficit." The problem with people with major depressive disorder is that they consider the