“I had a good life and I will have a good death,” Laura Fernández Abalde from Vigo said a few days ago when sharing her case in the media with the aim of speeding up the deadlines of the Euthanasia Law. This Tuesday, Surrounded by family and the medical team, she has received the euthanasia that she defended so much in her life.as they have confirmed from their surroundings.
At 67 years old, suffered from urethral melanoma with a misdiagnosis and his situation was terminal.
Fernández Abalde entered October in palliative care at the Meixoeiro hospital in Vigo and at the end of that month he made the first request for euthanasia. The second was carried out last week – fifteen days must pass between them – after his case jumped into the political arena.
The socialist parliamentary group maintained that the Xunta was failing to provide right to a dignified death by imposing a “suffocating bureaucracy” on people in extreme situations, like that of this woman, and pointed out that this process should respect their dignity and their decision personal to die in peace.
The autonomous government responded that complied “strictly with the procedures established” in state law regulation of euthanasia.
On Friday, Fernández Abalde learned that his request was approved and, he said, He would receive euthanasia earlier this week.
It was this Tuesday, shortly before 10:00 a.m., with family at her side, the medical team and a representative of the Right to Die with Dignity association, to which she belonged since 2006.
In a recent interview, with an impressive serenity, he stated that She faced her last days of life “tired”, but “happy”, with the idea of saying goodbye “giving thanks to life.”
He felt like his body was starting to “fail.”
He left wishing that the euthanasia law be reviewed so that the deadlines for achieving it are “shorter” and include cases that it does not now contemplate, “such as those of mental illness.”
He confessed that he had never she had felt “a peace” with herself and with the world “like these days” and it seemed “wonderful to be able to be in this state of tranquility when death approaches.”
I glimpsed a farewell surrounded by family and some friendswith her “wonderful” medical team and saying goodbye “thanking life” and to them for helping her leave “so well.”
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