translated from Spanish: The assisted suicide of a woman revives the debate on euthanasia in Spain

The arrest of a man for helping to kill his wife, sick hopeless, it stoked the debate in Spain about euthanasia, whose legalization gains support and be treated in the imminent electoral campaign this Thursday.
Late in the day, Angel Hernandez, of 70 years, has been released without precautions precautionary after appearing before the judge, Efe informed legal sources, for a crime of cooperation to suicide, after acknowledging that he had helped his wife to die.
The arrest took place at home in which marriage residing in Madrid, after the assisted suicide of María José Carrasco, 61 years old and sick from three decades of sclerosis multiple and dependent on her husband.
Marriage recorded it in a video, in which María Jose says his firm decision to die.
The deceased, according to other sources of research, said EfE had claimed in recent years that the Spanish Congress approve a euthanasia law.
The Criminal Code regulates in its article 143 induction to suicide or cooperation with the suicide of others, with a range of penalties that goes from two to 10 years in prison, though expected a rebate if there is a specific request of the victim and this suffer disease gr Ave.
In Spain there is a growing social demand for legalizing euthanasia and a survey of the CIS State agency said that 70% of Spaniards are agree to regulate it. 
But the draft law presented by the Socialist Party last year is locked, since both the conservative Popular Party (PP), and citizens (C’s, liberal) continuously requested the extension of the period of amendments.
The Socialist proposal contemplates the “anticipated end of life with the aim of avoiding prolong the suffering” of people with serious and incurable illness or chronic disability that involves a great condition.
The two families suffered this situation last February, handed over in Congress 280,000 signatures in favor of the legal regulation of euthanasia.
Every day lock “adds one more day of suffering,” said the son of one of the sick, who died days after a natural way.
What is regulated in several regions of Spain is the right to a dignified death, allowing patients to refuse treatment that prolongs his life artificially.
María José Carrasco had expressed to her husband “many times” their desire to die and put an end to their suffering.
That desire is found in a video in which the couple decided to record the assisted suicide, and in which she says: “Forward”.
In addition to video, Angel days ago wrote a letter in which recounted the suffering of his spouse and announced the decision to help her to die.
In the letter detailed the reasons that led them to this decision, and is targeting so-called “deniers” of euthanasia to ask them to be aware “pain that cause all those who like María Jose and his family suffer for his attitude”.
Also ask legislators that evolve towards positions less opposed to euthanasia so someone that needs it does not have to go along the same paths to them.
The Spanish Minister for health, María Luisa Carcedo, regretted the lack of regulation that would have avoided “so painful suffering” as this.
In statements to Efe, he recalled that the will of the Socialist Government of Pedro Sánchez is processing the law as soon as you begin the next legislature and try to be approved.
The new legislature that begins after the general elections of April 28 again opens the door to which Spain has its first euthanasia law.
Last week, Sanchez promised that if it governs again it will regulate it definitively so that “death is as worthy as life”.
Most of the parties regretted this case and agreed on the need of a law as soon as possible.
Only the PP not be said claiming that even there has been his electoral program.
The debate over the decriminalization of euthanasia originated on discussion in Spain in 1998, coinciding with the death of the quadriplegic Ramón Sampedro, and revived in 2004 as a result of the success of the movie “Mar adentro”, inspired by his life, which starred by the actor Javier Bardem and directed by Alejandro Amenábar hispano-chileno, with the Oscar prize.
Sampedro died after ingesting a preparation of cyanide that had provided him, after 29 years of disease and lose the legal battle which undertook in 1993 to apply euthanasia.
There was only one imputed in the case, Ramona Maneiro, supported by the signatures of more than 13,000 people, which is blamed for the death, until 20 months after the case was closed for lack of evidence.

Original source in Spanish