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Ana Estrada, 47, connected Sunday became Peru's first national to legally extremity her life aft nan nation's Supreme Court successful 2022 granted her petition for euthanasia. Estrada was diagnosed pinch degenerative polymyostosis astatine property 12 and was confined to a wheelchair nan remainder of her life. Photo by Paolo Aguilar/EPA-EFA
April 23 (UPI) -- Psychologist Ana Estrada, 47, connected Sunday became nan first Peruvian national to dice by euthanasia aft winning support for nan life-ending process from Peru's Supreme Court.
Assisted termination and euthanasia are forbidden successful Peru, but Estrada fought a years-long ineligible conflict to triumph support to extremity her life, nan National Catholic Register reported Tuesday.
"The aesculapian process was carried retired successful accordance pinch nan Dignified Death Protocol approved by EsSalud," Peruvian news tract Ojo Público announced Sunday successful a translated post connected X.
Estrada suffered from polymyositis since she was 12, teleSUR reported.
Polymyositis is simply a degenerative illness that weakens nan assemblage and has nary known cure. The illness rendered her wheelchair-bound until her decease Sunday.
Despite her condition, Estrada completed assemblage studies to go a psychologist. She besides became an activistic promoting assisted termination and euthanasia successful Peru.
Although those procedures are forbidden successful Peru, Estrada successful 2021 won tribunal support to acquisition euthanasia aft Peru's EsSalud societal information strategy denied her petition for euthanasia.
Peru's Supreme Court successful 2022 gave last support for Estrada's petition for euthanasia to extremity her 35 years of suffering. She had petitioned nan nation's courts to triumph support for nan process since 2019.
After nan tribunal rulings, EsSalud officials said Estrada wouldn't request a 2nd psychological information and allowed her to designate a personification she trusted to motion a archive giving consent to nan euthanasia.
The mode of Estrada's decease wasn't reported.
Canada, Switzerland and respective different nations are among those allowing assisted termination successful constricted circumstances. So are respective states successful nan United States.
Government officials successful France successful May are scheduled to statement a proposed law that would legalize end-of-life attraction for terminally sick adults who are mentally competent.
If you aliases personification you cognize is suicidal, telephone nan National Suicide Prevention Lifeline astatine 988.
