According to reports, Spain’s Ministry of Health has met with the nation’s autonomous communities to discuss updating the Manual of Good Practices on Euthanasia to include mental illness as a reason for requesting assisted death.
The draft version of the Organic Law on the Regulation of Euthanasia (LORE) states that euthanasia “does not include mental illness, allowing people with an unbearable suffering due to the presence of mental illness to request the Aid to Dying Benefit (PAM) on equal terms with those whose suffering comes from a somatic illness.”
Although it states that a mental health evaluation would be required for anyone seeking assisted death for mental health reasons, it also notes that the evaluation would seek to “identify those people who could benefit from” euthanasia — as if death were a treatment for mental illness.
As was the case in other nations that have legalized assisted death with restrictions, Spain has been lifting restrictions to help more and more people commit suicide since it was first legalized in 2021. In 2023, Spain’s euthanasia law was altered to remove the conscience protections in place for pharmacists that allowed them to refuse to prepare the deadly drugs. […]
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