<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - euthanasia]]> 10 <![CDATA[Who requests euthanasia in the Balearic Islands and how does the process work?]]>

The Euthanasia Law, in force in Spain since June 2021, has been progressively implemented in the Balearic Islands, where, to date, 116 people have requested this medical procedure and 40 have died after availing themselves of it within the public healthcare system.

]]> <![CDATA[Noelia's eyes]]> Noelia Castillo gave an interview to the program Y ahora Sonsoles on Antena 3 four days before her euthanasia. The presenter, Sonsoles Onega, with a theatrical, affected and condescending tone, insisted again and again on the scrupulousness of the treatment of the material. Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta...The reporter Bea Osa had achieved a very valuable journalistic scoop from an informative, human, and social point of view. Material of this caliber deserved to be broadcast in the style of great reports: sober, direct, raw, and letting the protagonist say everything she considered opportune. We could all hear what reasons had led a 25-year-old woman to decide she wanted to die. That she be assisted in her suicide. She had to endure almost two years of delays from a father who tried to block her decision, legitimized by each of the competent authorities, until reaching the Court of Strasbourg.

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