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  • 3 years ago
"I want to rest in peace, calmly and peacefully," says Paola Roldan, an Ecuadorian woman who has suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for three years and who is advocating euthanasia in her country. Roldan, 42, filed a lawsuit before court last August against an article of the Ecuadorian penal code that sentences homicide to 10 and 13 years in prison.

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00:00 And that's why the homicide penalty, as it is written,
00:03 is the main barrier to exercising the right to dignified death.
00:06 But it has been so many times that I have prayed to death
00:26 that after everything I have done,
00:30 after all the path I have taken,
00:32 I want to rest in peace.
00:36 This is not a fight to die.
00:41 I know I'm dying.
00:44 It's a fight of how to do it.
00:48 I know that the only thing I deserve,
01:11 the only thing I deserve,
01:14 is a life and a death with dignity.
01:19 What I live is painful, lonely and cruel.
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