TRIBUNNEWS.COM – Martha Sepúlveda Campo, a woman Colombia 51 years old, smiling at television cameras while joking with his son and drinking beer to “celebrate” an important moment in his life.
Reported NBC News, This Sunday, October 10, 2021, Martha will undergo lethal injection or euthanasia.
“From a spiritual level, I’m really calm,” Martha said in an interview with the television network Colombia, Snail News.
Martha defines herself as a very faithful Catholic.
He will be the first patient with a non-terminal illness to receive euthanasia in Colombia.
So far, Colombia considered a pioneer country in the right to a “death with dignity,” both in Latin America and globally.
“God doesn’t want to see me suffer, and I believe that no one, no parent wants to see their children suffer,” said Martha, who has suffered from a degenerative disease since 2019.
Over time, her symptoms got worse, until she could no longer walk unaided.
Martha diagnosed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a disease of the nervous system that affects the body’s mobility.
“In this state of mine, the best thing that could have happened to me was to rest,” he said.
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