Right now the world has more than 7,800 million people, and there are 373,000 births and 155,000 deaths every day. This data is amazing, because we move a lot of people every second, besides, humans are in fact social, and so the world is organized into societies. Add to this between 1995 and 2000 the Internet began to spread worldwide, and by 2015 it already accounted for a third of the world population, and by 2021 more than half the world population. So you can communicate with a person from anywhere else in the world, because human socialization has increased a thousand times. In this full contact world, It would be natural to treat all persons with respect, or to have a worthy life and death.

 

Therefore, it is very important to ensure that everyone has a respectable life, in which a great deal of law and consciousness is required. But the right of having a dignified life includes the right to a worthy death, which is ignored by most of the States of the world. In the Spanish state, and therefore in the southern part of Euskal Herria, the right to a dignified death did not exist until very recently. This situation was intended to change with the law of Euthanasia. Euthanasia, suicide in an incurable state and assisted by a patient's free decision to cause death without physical suffering, was illegal here until December 17, 2020.

 

The individual may choose to end his life, but this was not a right, and therefore the public powers ought to have provided medical treatment to those who are in danger of death. If the opposite happens, that is, to cause suicide or to help with it, the law would take it as a crime. As I've said before, on December 17, 2020, the Congress adopted the first law for the approval of euthanasia, in accordance with the 198 of the deputies, 138 against and 2 abstentions. For this reason there are many different opinions, and the state has been divided into two parts, those who are in favour of the law and those who are against. 

 

"Alegría y emoción por la aprobación de la ley de eutanasia". A part of the population has been very excited about the approval of this law. On the other hand, the other part of the population was against the law, "La ley de la eutanasia abre las puertas al homicidio". As may be seen in these two cases, it is very difficult to accept a law, and to please all. I would like to emphasize that the adoption of the law of euthanasia does not oblige you to use it. If you don't want to use this, nobody forces you to use it, but if you want to use it, you can do it now. So with this case, there has been an expansion of freedom. Now whoever wants to use euthanasia will have a legal basis to do so, and nothing has changed for anyone who doesn't want to use it. For this reason it is well for me to accept this law, because no one has been deprived of his rights, it is just an increase in rights.

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Sources:

 

• https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020-12-17/el-congreso-aprueba-la-primera-ley-de-eutanasia-con-una-holgada-mayoria.html

 

• "Alegría y emoción por la aprobación de la ley de eutanasia": https://www.abc.es/espana/abci-alegria-y-emocion-aprobacion-ley-eutanasia-202012172136_video.html

 

• "Abascal: "La ley de la eutanasia abre las puertas al homicidio"": https://www.abc.es/espana/abci-abascal-ley-eutanasia-abre-puertas-homicidio-legal-202012171527_video.html

 

• https://www.worldometers.info/