Father tries to block daughter's euthanasia in landmark Spanish case

Father tries to block daughter's euthanasia in landmark Spanish case The 23-year-old was due to testify in court on Tuesday (file photo) Euthanasia is the act of deliberately ending a person's life to relieve suffering. It can be involuntary – for example, if a person is in a coma and unable to give their consent – or voluntary, as in this case. She has the support of the regional government of Catalonia after a local euthanasia guarantee and evaluation board unanimously supported her decision in July 2024. The 23-year-old woman who wants to end her life is paraplegic due to injuries suffered when she tried to take her own life in 2022. A young woman is due to testify in a Spanish court today in a bid to persuade a judge to let her die voluntarily against the wishes of her father, in the first case of its kind. The woman was due to die in August, but the process was suspended at the last moment due to legal objections raised by her father, with the backing of the campaign group C ... Read full article.