She had multiple sclerosis and her husband helped her to die

April 5, 2019

The woman has been sick for 3 decades. He recorded everything in a video. He was arrested and released. The question provoked a great debate in Spain. Your lawyer spoke with Radio Miter Córdoba. Sensitive images

"Ángel Hernández has taken an unprecedented step in the fight for euthanasia in Spain and has recorded a video of extraordinary harshness in which he is bringing straw glbad to his wife, María José Carrasco, in order to put an end to her life, as she had asked so often, and he wanted this quivering document to be revealed so that everyone could see the "suffering and abandonment" that the couple was undergoing. ", describes the newspaper The country on the shocking badisted suicide of María José Carrasco, terminally ill, with the help of her husband.

This issue has reopened the debate on the decriminalization of euthanasia throughout Spain and other countries. María José's husband immediately criticized the doctors who showed up at the house when he called them. "He always said that he was not going to do it secretly, that he wanted to enlighten the subject"he said.

Hernandez shows everything in a video. He asks his wife María José Carrasco if she wants to die. "Do you still have the idea of ​​suicide? You know I have to help …". She, terminally ill with multiple sclerosis, responds in the affirmative. "We are 2 April 2019 and tomorrow I will prepare everything ", this man is listened to, desperate because his wife's illness has devastated part of his vision, with his mobility and almost completely with his ability to speak.

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María José, former judicial secretary, had suffered from the disease for three decades. On the day in question, the husband helped his wife with a poison. And all filmed to be documented. He brought a drink with a plastic straw from where the lady took it.

The product, they confirm in Spain, is sodium pentobarbital and is used for pet sacrifices. After the situation occurred, the Spanish justice arrested the husband and charged him with homicide. On Thursday, he was released after appearing before the judge. The case has reopened the debate on euthanasia.

His lawyer Olatz Alberdi told Radio Miter Córdoba: "In Spain, badisted suicide is penalized like what Angel did, with 6 to 10 years in prison.There is a more beneficial subtype that reduces this pain by 1 or 2 degrees because it This is a case like this, when the person is terminally ill and is suffering a lot.

In turn, he said that the video that Hernández recorded "It's a defense mechanism that makes the crime less serious, but it's still a crime, and today it's penalized, it's not used to being totally exempt."

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