On Monday July 4th,Chile’s constitutional assembly presented its proposed new legal code to President Gabriel Boric at a ceremony in Santiago. According to newswebsite Crux, Chile’s Catholic bishops have
On Tuesday April 20, Chile’s Chamber of Deputies approved a bill to allow euthanasia and assisted suicide for those over 18. The bill was already
Sergio Zorrilla, a philosopher specializing in bioethics on the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Santiago, said about persistent vegetative states, that of 20,000 people who have been in this state, maybe two will wake up, and they do not return to normal at all.”It makes no sense to prolong the suffering and the act of dying,” he argued, “because it not only hurts the person who is dying, but all of the patient’s loved ones as well. It makes no sense to prolong the agony when medicine can cure and heal other patients.
