According to the American newspaper, “Washington Post”, the 51-year-old has applied for the death of her life by “euthanasia”, due to the difficult health conditions she is going through.
The woman suffers from a disease known as “amyotrophic lateral sclerosis”, a neurological disease that gradually worsens because it affects the brain and spinal cord.
The Colombian woman has lost the feeling of her legs, while she expects that her condition will worsen in the future, given that the health disorder that she has suffered from is a very complex disease.
On Friday night, Marta Sepulveda was woken from sleep by her lawyer and told that Sunday’s “euthanasia” had been cancelled.
And the euthanasia date, which was scheduled for the morning, was canceled because a scientific committee found that the woman’s file no longer met the required conditions, because her health had improved.
The lawyers stated that this decision came as a surprise and shock, because the woman was not aware of a meeting between health officials to consider her decision on “euthanasia”.
The woman’s lawyer said that Marta, who was waiting to die, canceled her telephone subscription, because she had decided to leave and had made a final and irreversible decision.
This decision sparked controversy in the country, while the law firm and a human rights organization said that they would move to defend the right of women in what they described as a “dignified death”, because they no longer want to continue living.
The woman’s lawyers say that the ban’s step contradicts the decision issued by the country’s Constitutional Court, which gave the option of “euthanasia” to patients who suffer physical injury or a serious and incurable disease.
Lawyers stated that the woman was very afraid of the consequences of the disease, such as not being able to go to the bathroom or even bed in order to sleep, and for this reason, she read about the option of “euthanasia” and decided to end her life, because this step would comfort her, she said.
Colombia is one of the first countries in the world to endorse the “euthanasia” step, along with a few other countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands.
Colombia offers the option of euthanasia, even if the person who does not want to die has reached the final stage of the disease, that is, the hopeless stage.
In the United States, no US state allows “euthanasia”, but ten states, in addition to Washington, DC, allow what is known as “medicare-assisted suicide” and is available to people who have reached a very advanced stage of the disease, provided that they are adults and sane.
US states require that a person who requests medical assistance be in a poor health condition that allows him to live for six months or less.
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