“I had a good life and I will have a good death”, said Laura Fernández Abalde, from Vigo, a few days ago when she shared her case in the media with the aim of speeding up the deadlines of the Law of Euthanasia. Euthanasia. This Tuesday, surrounded by her family and medical team, she received the euthanasia she had advocated for so long in her life.as confirmed by her entourage.
At the age of 67, had a misdiagnosed melanoma of the urethra. and his condition was terminal.
Fernández Abalde was admitted to October in palliative care at the Meixoeiro hospital in Vigo and at the end of that month she made the first request for euthanasia. The second request was made last week -between one and the other, fifteen days have to pass-, after his case jumped into the political arena.
The socialist parliamentary group argued that the Xunta was failing to provide the right to a dignified death by imposing a “suffocating bureaucracy” on people in borderline situations, such as this woman’s, and pointed out that this process should respect her dignity and her decision to die in peace.
The Autonomous Government responded that it complied “strictly with the procedures established” in the state law. regulating euthanasia.
On Friday, Fernandez Abalde learned that his application had been approved and, he advanced that. would receive euthanasia early this week.
It has been this Tuesday, shortly before 10:00 a.m., with family members at her side, the medical team and a representative of the association Derecho a Morir Dignamente, to which she had belonged since 2006.
In a recent interview, with an impressive serenity, she affirmed that she faced her last days of life “tired” but “happy”, with the idea of saying goodbye “thanking life”.
He felt that his body was beginning to “fail”.
He left wishing That the euthanasia law be revised to make the time limits for achieving euthanasia “shorter.” and include cases that are not currently contemplated, “such as those of mental illness”.
He confessed that he had never she had never felt “a peace” with herself and with the world “as these days” and found it “wonderful to be able to be in this state of tranquility as death approaches.”
He glimpsed a farewell surrounded by family and some friendswith her “wonderful” medical team and saying goodbye “thanking life” and them for helping her to leave “so well”.