Escobar said this week, “I feel very at peace. I am not afraid of what is going to happen to me. He told me that first I would be slowly sedated so I had time to say goodbye. Then a euthanasia injection would be given which would be painless – a very peaceful death. I have faith in God that everything will be like this.
His lawyer, Luis Giraldo, told Friday evening that the process was over and Escobar had died.
In July, a court in the country changed the rules of euthanasia and opened the doors of euthanasia to those who are suffering intense physical and mental suffering due to a serious and incurable disease even if their death is not near. Ho. However, the Catholic Church is opposed to this decision.
“A door has opened so that a patient like me has the opportunity to die in a dignified manner,” Escobar said in his apartment in Cali on Thursday. Other medicines were also not able to affect his body.
He had been ill since 2008 when two strokes left half of his body paralyzed. Although some organs started functioning later, they were caught by diseases such as lung disease that obstructs breathing, hypertension, diabetes, severe arthritis, and a rare disease in which the ribs are attached to the upper bone of the thorax. joins causing painful swelling.
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