{"id":10838,"date":"2021-08-03T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10838"},"modified":"2021-08-30T18:29:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T01:29:51","slug":"spanish-win-the-right-to-medically-assisted-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10838","title":{"rendered":"Spanish win the right to medically assisted death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New Frame<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex \u010cizmi\u0107, Ricard Gonzalez<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Carme Barahona wears a smile that is only erased when she recalls how her son Ivan Mart\u00ed died in late 2017. \u201cHe sent me a message saying: \u2018Thanks for taking care of me, mom. I am going to rest\u2019.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marti, 43, had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable neurodegenerative disease that results in a progressive loss of movement and eventually death. Right after receiving her son\u2019s farewell message, Barahona made sure to clock in at her job to prove she had not helped him take his life. Otherwise, she might have been imprisoned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 25 June, however, this risk no longer exists. Spain has legislated that its citizens who suffer from a \u201cchronic and incurable disease, with an unbearable physical or mental suffering\u201d have the right to ask for medical assistance to die. . . continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Frame Alex \u010cizmi\u0107, Ricard Gonzalez Carme Barahona wears a smile that is only erased when she recalls how her son Ivan Mart\u00ed died in late 2017. \u201cHe sent me a message saying: \u2018Thanks for taking care of me, mom. I am going to rest\u2019.\u201d  Marti, 43, had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an … Continue reading “Spanish win the right to medically assisted death”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,643,162,9,21],"tags":[4062,4067,4068,4065,4069,184,4066,4064,4063],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-10838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-christianity-catholicism","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-spain","tag-asociacion-derecho-a-morir-dignamente","tag-aurelio-luna-maldonado","tag-carmelo-sergio-gomez","tag-college-of-doctors-of-catalonia","tag-gerard-guerra-rey","tag-hospitals","tag-josep-arimany","tag-sean-davison","tag-world-federation-of-right-to-die-societies"],"yoast_head":"\r\nSpanish win the right to medically assisted death - 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