Colombia Authorizes Euthanasia killing
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Allows Mercy Killing for cancer patient
A committee of experts at a hospital in the central Colombian city of Pereira has authorised the first mercy killing in the country in the case of a patient with terminal cancer whom several days ago the hospital ceased treating for legal reasons.
Ovidio Gonzalez, 79, a cartoonist in Colombia known as matador has been suffering from an aggressive cancer in his face that can no longer be treated. According to the patient he was earlier denied approval as “to fulfill that right he (the patient) had to be completely debilitated, and with the way things are he can live a while longer.”
A committee of experts at a hospital in the central Colombian city of Pereira has authorised the first mercy killing in the country in the case of a patient with terminal cancer whom several days ago the hospital ceased treating for legal reasons.
Ovidio Gonzalez, 79, a cartoonist in Colombia known as matador has been suffering from an aggressive cancer in his face that can no longer be treated. According to the patient he was earlier denied approval as “to fulfill that right he (the patient) had to be completely debilitated, and with the way things are he can live a while longer.”
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