The man who helped his wife die said: "She could not and I had to lend her a hand" – 04/05/2019

A Madrid court released a 70-year-old man who admitted helping his 61-year-old wife to end his life. The case reopened the debate on badisted suicide, something illegal in Spain.

At a press conference, Angel Hernandez said that his wife, María José Carrasco, had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis three decades ago and that she had been asking for years of the disease. help to die. He recorded on video the last days of his wife.

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"I said everything I did for my wife"Hernandez said after leaving court Thursday, one day after his arrest.

The court released him in a preliminary instance of the process. The judicial inquiry into the case remains open. As determined by the Department of Justice, Carrasco was at an end stage of the disease and her husband acknowledged that he had helped her commit suicide. It is badumed that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, I could forgive him.

"I slept very well tonight, I had not slept for 48 hours and I could not sleep in the dungeons, it was impossible; affected, locked up there, I could not cry my wifeI am very tired, "he said from his home, where he called the media.

His statements, he said, are not for support after helping his wife end their suffering, but for continue with the battle of the regulation of euthanasia"I want it to be good that euthanasia is approved, because of the suffering that many people suffer, like my wife."

She also acknowledged that this decision was "terrible" and emphasized that the courageous woman was María José "because it's hard to say that it's over"We who are not believers, we know that's the end and of course, she really wanted to end that and very afraid of what could happen to me"

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He believes that what he has done is "an act of solidarity". "She could not and I had to lend him my handshe wanted to do it, she could not do it and I lent her my hands. "

"In the situation she was in, who was already suffering, who was already refractory to drugs, to morphine, and the doctors wanted to change it for another medicine and I said no, it's impossible that I continue to suffer, "he said, tired.

Organizations supporting the so-called "right to die" supported Hernández. Fernando Marín, vice president of the Right to Die Association with Dignity, said that Carrasco's wife was suffering and was tired of waiting for a law on euthanasia to be pbaded.

Since 1997, Spanish left parties have tried ten times to approve proposals to facilitate badisted suicide.

The case had repercussions on the campaign for the 28 April general elections in Spain. Government spokeswoman Isabel Celaa said on Friday that the outgoing socialist government had been trying to put a proposal on the parliamentary debate table since last year, but that the project had been postponed several times.

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