The last footage of him alive shows him smiling and surrounded by family. He was sedated and then given a lethal injection.
“I was already feeling sick. I felt like my lungs did not obey me,” Escobar told AFP in October as he waged the final chapter of his legal battle.Diabetes and a cardiovascular ailment left him in a wheel chair and suffering from spasms that wracked his body.In Europe only Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and Spain have legalized euthanasia.As of mid-2021 patients like Escobar — with chronic diseases and a life expectancy of more than six months — could not undergo euthanasia.
“I want my story to be known because it creates a path for patients like me, patients with degenerative conditions, to have an open door to seek rest,” Escobar said. Days earlier in another city, Medellin, 51 year old Martha Sepulveda, suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also saw her request to die cancelled at the last minute on grounds that she was not terminal.
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