Last Tuesday, the head of the controversial court number 12 of Barcelona He supported Noelia’s euthanasia, on 24 -yold suffering from paraplegiawhose voluntary death was paralyzed by a cause intended by his father “in extremis”. The magistrate rejected the appeal filed by the Ultra -Catholic Christian Lawyers association, which represents the parent.
Noelia required euthanasia almost a year ago
The young woman, who was Paraplegic after a suicide attempt in 2022He asked to receive euthanasia in April 2024, adding constant and irreversible suffering. The question received all the medical guarantees, the commission for guarantee and evaluation has given the green light unanimously of its 19 members, considering that the patient met the requirements established by the law on euthanasia. However, his father, with the help of Christian lawyers, made use of the decision claiming that his daughter had no ability to make that decision because of the previous mental disorders.
The process has opened an unprecedented debate: if relatives can challenge an adult person on their life. Generalitat supports him The young woman is the only holder of the right to decent deathWhile the prosecutor’s office recognizes that family members can intervene if they maintain a close link with the patient. The father claims that his daughter showed doubts about his decision, although medical relationships support his psychopathological stability.
However, the judge concluded that, “Father’s request is not justified” To prevent the daughter of the daughter, who is in the legal age and who, although he has a borderline personality disorder, according to the psychiatric relationship conducted, does not suffer any crisis or decompened to it that affects his skills.
The father will resort to the sentence
Christian lawyers announced on Monday that the sentence will resort and ask Precautionary measures to avoid Noelia Euthanasia. “We will resort to: the next is the TSJ, but we will exhaust all the ways,” said the president of this association, Poland Castellanos, in declarations to the asset, in which he assured that he does not exclude by undertaking criminal actions against the generalitat to which he accused of falsifying a relationship.
The association the right to die dignity celebrates the sentence
The right association to die dignity from Catalonia (DMD Catalonia) sees aA “consolidation” of euthanasia in judicial resolution which reiterates the personal right to die assisted by Noelia. “This resolution would confirm that the right to ask for euthanasia and die with dignity is a very personal right, which corresponds only to the applicant person and that he cannot be challenged by third parties,” the DMD Catalonia Association explained on Monday.
The association that defends euthanasia believes that the judgment of resolutions for ideological issues “It could also be considered an abuse of the lawSince it could be equivalent to fraudulently hinder the application of a law, tradition.
