In #Constituyente #Cdmx, death is legalized, but life is denied. Very bad ideas about the secular state of the left pic.twitter.com/xZ9cr3UaK1 The living will can be understood as „the decision of a person to be subjected or not to be subjected to medical means, treatments or procedures aimed at prolonging his life when it is in the final stage and it is impossible, for medical reasons, to maintain it naturally, to protect the dignity of the person at all times“ (art. 1 of the Pension Act for the Federal District). In analyzing the concept, he said that if it is not performed by a doctor©, it is not euthanasia because it is fixed. „There are other people who can help a terminally ill patient die, but it`s a different process.“ The Mexican constitution does not prohibit euthanasia, the only one that does this is the General Health Law. The Federal Penal Code considers crimes to be those that help another person commit suicide and punishes them with up to five ± years in prison. With these precedents, it is natural that there is no order in Mexico©that has the problem of euthanasia devices in abundance. On April 1, various media reported on actor Alain Delon`s decision to obtain euthanasia, which is inaccurate because assisted suicide is not legal in Switzerland, the country where the actor lives. The decision, according to the 86-year-old French actor, was made consciously, freely and voluntarily, and given that he felt his health was deteriorating tremendously. The actor does not want to have a long agony and prefers to die in peace and dignity.
The fact that public figures like Mr. Deloin share these decisions allows us to think of euthanasia and assisted suicide as a means of exercising the human right to a dignified or proper death. He clarified that if there is no explicit request from the patient, it is also not euthanasia. „This is very important because there are those who believe that with the acceptance of euthanasia, the person could be killed, and this is not the case, it only applies to a patient`s request.“ Official statistics are scarce, but bioethicist Horacio García Romero notes that up to 45% of terminally ill patients in the country require some type of passive euthanasia.[26] The strong argument in favor of euthanasia is to allow the patient to put an end to unnecessary and degrading suffering that does not allow him to live a dignified life. but of pain and torment, a situation that would threaten the free development of one`s personality and dignity as a human person, in order to avoid being exposed to therapeutic bitterness in the face of advances in medical science and the desire of doctors to keep alive a being without hope of healing. In this way, it is necessary to legalize euthanasia in order to allow the exercise of a dignified death under strict conditions that prevent its abuse. The practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide is surrounded by major religious, ethical, scientific and legal controversies. Euthanasia has existed and exists all over the world and over time, although its practice is hidden or veiled. Although there are health professionals who help their patients to end the suffering and agony of incurable diseases or painful deaths, there is also a large sector that refuses to resort to euthanasia or assisted suicide, because its professional and ethical mission is fundamentally to heal the sick and maintain life. On Thursday, Spain±s history by legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide. After a vote in parliament with 202 votes in favour, 141 against and two abstentions, the European nation joined the short list of countries that recognize the right of patients in the final states to a „dignified death“.
Now, it is true that, as another side of the coin in the interrogation on this subject, the question arises to what extent, if assisted suicide and especially euthanasia are accepted with more openness, cases of abuse against the sick or the elderly could occur.
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