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El Mundo on the right to life and death

The Spanish daily El Mundo reflects in a leading article on two current rulings on euthanasia. In both cases the patients and their relatives have been granted the right to dispense with further life-prolonging measures. "On the one hand there is the tragedy of Hannah Jones, an English girl whom the judiciary has supported in her wish not to be given a heart transplant. Because she has leukaemia, her life so far has been filled with suffering and one operation after another. On the other hand there's the case of Eluana Englaro, a 37-year-old [Italian] who has been in a coma since 1992. Her father has just succeeded in convincing Italy's judiciary to allow the death of a person in this condition for the first time ever. These are both extreme and complex situations, from both the legal and ethical perspectives. ... Nonetheless we must insist that there is an important difference between rejecting a therapy on the one hand and euthanasia or assisted suicide on the other, which under our law is a punishable offence. The [Spanish] law on patient autonomy, which was passed under the government of [former prime minister José María] Aznar, grants citizens the right to reject a medical treatment. In accordance with this law we believe that it is appropriate to respect the conscious and carefully considered request of sick patients who do not wish to be kept alive through artificial life support or other special measures."

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