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after the

the story of which one comes here to

defend is humanity and freedom

freedom above all things and

I come to defend thousands of people who

suffer their last days or years that the

suffering if it is maximally

unbearable to those people like san pedros

carlos montserrat volta ruiz de marcos y

so many that still can not

decide how to end your life or

end the suffering that is done

totally unbearable to understand

that is the human dilemma is almost

impossible until one lives it and is what

that I want to transmit and try

for a moment think in a moment

what would happen if any of us

when leaving a medical consultation we

report a serious illness or

terminal without exit and that we are not going to

die a cancer that is incurable that does not

you can operate that has no way of

solution a neurological disease

chronic degenerative that will not go

retiring little by little we go virtus that

it almost falls into the same category

I would like you not to think in a moment

nothing else they could feel before

such news a moment nothing more

and surely no one would get to

understand it

nobody could come to understand the

magnitude of such news

what is clear is that from the

moment of the news has changed everything

my life changed in a second

exactly appeared as if there

seriously ill it was no longer

the same

what we were looking at did not have the same

colors to our children we can not

look alike everything was uncertainty

absolute but I was not going to die

imagine for a moment that we have

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis that is

the disease that unfortunately today

advocate those patients who look

deteriorated continuously

imagine for a moment that from the

be well, we happen to be more and more

of emigrants with ourselves who do not

we can raise a hand what is it

that we had been doing for 24 hours,

we can do that we will not walk that

we can feed ourselves

that we do not know what we are

we will forget about losing

we will lose little by little the notion of the

reality that we can not even talk about

they were not a spoon the food that did not

They will clean diapers up to stiffness

more extreme and this in a long period

of time

this is unworthiness if someone requests

what is suffering most

unbearable is finished is not that today

how dying people knew this

doctor

the vast majority of people die

intubated in the usi and apparently in the

better of death because we’re fine

care

someone can tell those patients

that today die in hospitals not

you have no memory so what for

suffer someone can decide for that

patient who wants to fight until the

final does not matter the consequences and its

been we can say no to that

people we do not do they have their right to

die worthily

that way the patient who really

can not anymore

the patient they really say do not give

more listen to me help me

my forces are finished is supported

edurado and tried to get ahead

I can not I can not look at myself not

I can talk to the people I want not

humiliate me more because it is the

definition of dignity is

take responsibility for the same

value yourself without reaching the

humiliation and totally to the

denigration as said savior pániker

I do not want to reach decrepitude

lack of decrepitude so that the

he is convinced that it is not to see your

progressive deterioration

someone can deny that human request

that freedom to be able to choose to decide

not suffer the same and not see suffer at

that one loves

what is the argument against this

there are and you have to accept it because

fact exists and the rights of these

people who do not think he respects the

decision to end suffering

unbearable human is something that is not

should do and this is a right and the

we have to achieve it all

who are in favor of a dignified death to

through a doctor’s help and the

that are not in favor because for that

we fight everything so that the world is

better to really be a

more just society so that it does not

privileges so many and even one

person who asks please die for not

suffer not to be heard and we look at another

Side me with Carmen does not look on the other side

I heard his pain and he has me

I got in because I felt son I felt

father I felt brother

I was there although medically not

there was nothing else to do after

have fought my humanity in that

moment he could not look away and

I am sorry many times I have

I asked if I regretted the fact

I never regret the conviction of

to have made the best human gesture

my whole life never the damage caused and

later if mine of my family and of

my children

dignity is something that depends on one and

for that we have to fight all the

rights

arise from the indignations of others

because this is a right that would have

to be within human rights

universal and they do not exist against

nothing and the arguments that are against

that exist as for example the

Hippocratic Oath

they say that doctors only have

that save lives

the doctors to the move plus the best

we have to heal

we do not always save life not always

let’s try to save lives and

resuscitate cardiorespiratory arrest

there is the most just because his son

has a fever a broken finger

after hitting a city no longer

we are the same

we are also for that and in the end

of life if someone asks you please

help me doctor because I can not

endure more this pain

we are saving a life of suffering

a life that is no longer life if one lives

with continuous pain

that is to live if there is someone who for him

it’s not living and that can not take it anymore

how can it be that they are not heard

how can it be tilde to a

killer human doctor

how can it be that justice does not

act and be so unfair

even in death how can it be that

an act of absolute and total love

commitment to the sufferer is punished

sector I had I left it in misery and

your name is crossed out for the rest of

his life, since José was the best

I did in my life

instead of waiting for hearts to observe

people on the street I felt one more of

a patient that was not a number

it was not a bed it was not a pathology

He was a human being who solidarized me and

the best they really say that I

it cost twelve years of suffering

the message is not to be against or to

please this much more message

simple is to listen to the other respecting it is

Do not denigrate it, please do not ask

you died when we decide

when the system tells you when not

when you no longer want more fighting

for life

we say it the system is going to

say when the system exists I have already

said before the system exists people

dies in intensive therapy and if the

euthanasia that good death is a

crime

what a paradox it is for the others

medical issues

some will understand that going for everything in

medicine is useful and probably is if

the patient accepts it

If the patient understands what is done

if you listen to him you are asked

explains this more difficult everything die

with 20 bombs but they do not know what is

happening he did not ask anybody he wants

nobody asked him absolutely nothing

they will die as medicine always says

a tablet and in those patients who

out of respect for themselves they ask for

please I do not want to suffer anymore that is a

disease that is deteriorating little to

little that humbles you little by little that the

denigrate tea

we do not need to listen to them there is no

answer for this

this has to be a right this

it implies a risk for society

this implies that suddenly all the

mortality will increase not someone from this

ward wants to die

someone thinks about death something

important said this gentleman

there is a way that we understand all that

this one has to get ahead is

talking about it you have to talk about the

death

you have to sit at home and talk to

dad and mom and ask how he wants

die we do not speak this is one of the

better ways to prevent those who

we stay in life we do not have a

limbo of decisions that we do not stay

in a vacuum without really knowing what

our parents wanted us to do in their

final day is my father’s love I saw her

very bad the death of descending

the death of the agent that one loves is a

critical moment of life but the worst

is to see impairment the disability

my father died of a stroke during

two years

the detainee was tremendous the destruction

as a son he was tremendous

I not wish anyone does not hurt to

that if they want the person who is

seriously ill before an illness

incurable

in a medically situation

irreversible please ask him

listen to how they want to finish that and

all together all together without any

doubt

slowly because slow because 25 ago

years poured san pedro

we are getting closer they were more

close to listening to those people and that’s why

my story is one more grain in the

human suffering

you do not have to suffer another minute

of the necessary and again before a

irreversible medical situation

where there is no hope of

treatment and before an explicit request

to end human suffering

this ability to

decide to choose not to be afraid of

death

let’s understand bad life because

if we understand life

we will understand death more and not

we are afraid of death is something that is

part of life and the level of

doctors we must act in it

it is not a failure the death of a

patient in life that ends

because the only truth that we’re going to

die all and nobody wants to die with

law of euthanasia or without euthanasia law

nobody wants to die we all love life

to call life means to understand

death and take out that fear that is that

do not be an obstacle to us

very much more free to really

look at the face of truth life must

give it front and not be afraid of not

be afraid of death because there is no

that being afraid of life does not have to be

to be afraid to fight to get out

ahead

you do not have to be afraid of anything because

this what will not be strong and if

we come to this conclusion that it seems

something so easy that it is not

absolutely is not without any doubt

is the first step the previous step

understand if today what frames is here

defending a position when I

I got sick who guaranteed me that when

tell me what I have in the do not want

alternation and fight until the last

second of my life before dying and to

reverse

who can say those who do not

are in favor of a dignified death

when it’s time for them to have

a ferocious amyotrophic lateral and during

the course of the disease sits

so humiliated with the same one who asks for

please end your suffering there is no

black and white here even if they want it

paint black and white

this is life and understanding life is

understand death and fear

with this

to end the fear is a

obstacle have in life and you have to

avoid it

the fear is paralyzing it does not let move and

it’s something that without a doubt all

We are afraid to die, nobody to die

but if really in the course of

our lives

we try to live better to be

better people give a hand that

therapy to fight for the things that are

more just to defend the dignity of the

human being in life and in death

we will arrive network really I am very

convinced of it

after something really inside of

inner work to take out that taboo of

that we are going to die when he is

We finish really fear you

let’s lose this fear that one day

we will die and how to die I am

convinced very convinced that that day

that we lose the fear of dying

we will be really free thank you very much

[Applause]

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