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Mexico senate has unanimously approved a proposal to guarentee terminally ill patients the right to refuse invasive or life prolonging treatments. The bill does not legalise mercy killing or assisted suicide, thus it cannot be considered euthanasia.
“We want to give everyone the right to a dignified death because death is the last human freedom,” said Sen. Lazaro Mazon, a surgeon.
Current law, adheres strictly to the Hypocratic Oath and requires all physicians to make all efforts in preserving the life of their patients and demands legnthy jail time for anyone who aids patients end their lives, regardless of the illness. The approved bill would modify an existing Mexico City law from 2007, which enables patients suffering incurable diseases and a life expectancy of under six months to sign a document before witnesses suspending treatment if medicines cannot provide a cure. The new Right to Die bill was already approved by lower house and now awaits signing into law by Mexican President Felipe Calderon.
The proposal was unanimously backed by the Senate, including members from the ruling conservative National Action Party ,PAN:
“I have seen cases where the family loses all they have due to doctor’s stubbornness,” (leading PAN legislator Ernesto) Saro said. “Another problem is that hospitals don’t have enough equipment.”
My wife's beloved maternal Grandfather, a wonderful man, suffered endless years of diabetes, cancer, kidney and and heart failure. He fought his fight for as long as he knew he should, then begged the family for years to put an end to his pain; law wouldn't allow it. He died blind, comatose, on dialysis, and legless, he was denied both dignity and his last freedom of dying in peace. To this day my wife and her family are haunted by his tearful pleadings and unnecessary sufferings at the hands of the law.
Mexico is the world's second-largest Roman Catholic nation and the Church has opposed similar right-to-die legislation, my question is: WHY?
The Church tells me my Maker has a divine plan for me, my birth and my death are preinscribed by God, why would God want to see me suffer? How would I be sinning by not taking my life which has alreading been medically deemed terminal, but simply allowing nature to take it's course; placing myself in my God's hands?
