Spain legalizes euthanasia

Spain legalizes euthanasia? After years of struggles to the sound of classroom discussions, street demonstrations and propaganda on social networks. Spain legalizes euthanasia (or assisted death). Let's see what the law says, which will come into force in a few months. The law determines that euthanasia (death directly induced by a healthcare professional) or assisted suicide (ie self-induced death thanks to a drug prescribed by a doctor). They may be requested by people suffering from a disease "Serious and incurable"Or from a" serious, chronic and disabling "pathology. These must cause "unbearable suffering". Anyone who has been a citizen of Spain for at least one year and the service is offered by the National Health System will have the right to receive this benefit.

not everyone is in favor of the bill

Spain legalize euthanasia not everyone is in favor of the proposed law. for example: the health workers called into question, however, conscientious objection is envisaged. The process of giving the green light to help die will take about five weeks. The patient must give his consent on four occasions and at least two doctors unrelated to the case must authorize the request. The law proposed it by the Spanish Socialist Party. This has received approval from many of the various political alignments. Except those of the far right and conservatives who opposed it. "Today we are a more humane, fairer and freer country ". This is what Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchek commented on Twitter. With this sentence he thanked "all the people who fought tirelessly " to get the law approved ".

Spain legalizes euthanasia: who decided it?

Spain legalizes euthanasia: who decided it? The news is welcomed with satisfaction by the relatives of the patients suffering from severe illness diseases incurable. But not only! even from associations that requested the legalization of euthanasia: "Many people will be spared much suffering". this stated in a statement Javier Velasco, president of the Derecho association in Morir Dignamente. "Cthere will be few cases of euthanasia, but the law will benefit everyone ". Hard punch from the church that for years has opposed euthanasia. But not only! also every form of suppression of life, considered unique and sacred. The bishops intervened through the general secretary of the Bishops' Conference of the Iberian country, monsignor Luis Arguello Garcia, auxiliary bishop of Valladolid.

Spain legalizes euthanasia: how the Church responds

How he answers the church, in all this? let's see it together. The simplest solution is chosen. To avoid suffering, the death of those who suffer it is caused, without considering that a valid remedy can be found by resorting to palliative care. Instead, we must "promoting a culture of life and taking concrete steps, argues Argüello. To allow a will biological that allows Spanish citizens to express in a clear and determined way their desire to receive palliative care. The law must also allow, according to the bishop, the possibility of expressing a clear desire not to be subject to the application of this law on euthanasia and, on the part of medical personnel, to declare themselves conscientious objectors.

We must not put aside the culture of life. Against that of death, take care of the suffering, the terminally ill. It must be done with tenderness, closeness, mercy and encouragement. This is to keep hope alive in those people who are in the last stretch of their existence and who need care and comfort. Also Vincenzo Paglia, Archbishop and president of the Pontifical Academy of Life. He expressed his opinion on the news of the approval of euthanasia: "The diffusion of a real euthanasia culture, in Europe and in the world, must be answered with a different cultural approach". The suffering and despair of the sick says Monsignor Paglia should not be ignored. But the solution is not to anticipate the end of life. The solution is to take care of physical and mental suffering.

Spain legalizes euthanasia: assisted interruption of life becomes possible

The interruption assisted life becomes possible. While the Pontifical Academy for Life supports the need to spread palliative care. Not the antechamber of euthanasia, but a true palliative culture of taking charge of the whole person, in a holistic approach. When we can't heal anymore, we can always heal people. We must not anticipate the dirty work of death with euthanasia. We must be human, he concluded, staying close to those who suffer. Do not leave it in the hands of a dehumanization of medicine or in the hands of the euthanasia industry. The right to life is an absolute value and must always be defended.