Chilean Girl Wants To Die

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Paula Díaz, a 19-year-old Chilean girl, is reawakening the controversial issue of euthanasia in her country, after three years another famous local case of a young girl with cystic fibrosis who was demanding a dignified death.

Díaz's family has started a campaign in networks under the hashtag #JusticiaParaPaula where the rest of the girl who began to present symptoms of a strange disease since 2013 is asked for the rest.

According to accounts from her own family, until 2013 Díaz was a completely healthy and normal girl, but when she received a triple vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough, things changed.

"From then on, she began to present a series of symptoms that were not associated with a cough," Vanessa Díaz, the minor's sister, told BBC News. "She lived through a series of hospitalizations, was in many hospitalized clinics and began to lose mobility in her legs, arms, legs, hands, she lost mobility, sensitivity in some parts and in others she feels a lot of pain."

Different experts analyzed the case of the young woman, whose diagnosis is still unclear and in which there seems to be no consensus yet.

"His last diagnosis was in 2015, in which he was said to have neurological damage and is also degenerative," says Paula's sister. "But we have never been told that it is because of a certain disease or what causes it."

Now, the case of the girl originally from the town of Taica has reached the ears of President Michelle Bachelet, to whom a letter and a video published on networks was sent pleading for an end to her suffering.

"President Bachelet, this video is addressed to you, please listen to Paula's request," it was said in the post addressed to the president and published repeatedly until this February 1. “[It is] of utmost urgency that she know her case in order to offer her the rest that she begs so much. She is suffering too much, her body can no longer bear so much pain!” Her relatives indicate that so far they have received no response.