Father loses legal fight to halt euthanasia of 25-year-old daughter in Spain

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Spain is grappling pinch nan decease of a 25-year-old female from Barcelona who was euthanized pursuing a bid of tragic events contempt aggregate ineligible challenges from her father.

Noelia Castillo Ramos' lawsuit galvanized world attraction aft her father, Gerónimo Castillo, mounted a ineligible conflict against nan authorization of various Spanish courts for his girl to person euthanasia successful 2023. Aided by Abogados Cristianos (Christian Lawyers), a blimpish Catholic organization, Mr. Castillo exhausted each appeals to nan Spanish courts.

The begetter based on that his girl wasn’t afloat psychologically capable to make a determination regarding euthanasia and that she needed amended aesculapian and psychiatric care. His ineligible conflict was yet unopen down by nan European Court for Human Rights successful Strasbourg, France, connected March 10.

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Noelia Castillo Ramos is featured successful Spain's El País newspaper pursuing her euthanasia past Thursday. (APTV)

The lawsuit of Castillo Ramos is conscionable nan latest successful euthanasia deaths crossed Europe, but nan Barcelona woman’s prime to dice has inflamed passions crossed nan country.

Castillo Ramos' parents divided erstwhile she was 13 and spent almost 4 years successful nationalist tutelage centers erstwhile she was diagnosed pinch borderline characteristic upset (BPD) — a superior psychiatric information often starring to terrible depression, termination ideation and a inclination to addiction.

By her ain account, successful an question and reply she gave earlier dying to Spanish TV transmission Antena 3 she tried to perpetrate termination astatine slightest doubly contempt being nether intensive psychiatric care. In her first termination attempt, she took respective pills and ingested a toxic automotive liquid, but was saved by her mother, who took her to nan infirmary for a gastric-intestinal cleansing procedure.

Things sewage worse for her erstwhile she near nan location and ended up being sexually assaulted aggregate times erstwhile she was astir 20. First, she was sexually abused by a erstwhile fellow aft taking sleeping pills. Soon after, 2 men attempted to rape her while successful a nightclub, leaving her profoundly scarred, and arsenic reports indicate, this led her to a attraction location for worsening psychiatric symptoms.

Several group believe astatine nan entranceway of nan Sant Camil hospital, connected 26 March 2026 successful Sant Pere de Ribes, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The magistrate of nan 20th Preliminary Section of nan Barcelona Court of First Instance has denied for nan 3rd clip nan take of nan precautionary measures requested by nan Spanish Foundation of Christian Lawyers, which asked to suspend nan exertion of euthanasia to Noelia Castillo Ramos from Barcelona. Castillo Ramos died connected Thursday. ( Lorena Sopena/Europa Press via Getty Images)

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There, she was gang-raped by 3 men. With her intelligence authorities deteriorating, she attempted termination by jumping retired of nan 5th level of a building.

Multiple reports and societal media posts primitively indicated that nan 3 rapists who assaulted her were migrant minors nether nan attraction of nan authorities – thing nan Barcelona-based newspaper El Periódico says is false.

Many Spaniards person reacted angrily nan court's authorization for her to person euthanasia, accusing nan leftist authorities of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of not providing nan woman pinch capable aesculapian care, opening up nan state to wide migration, deficiency of policing and yet handing down euthanasia arsenic a solution to her case.

Several group believe astatine nan entranceway of nan Sant Camil hospital, connected 26 March, 2026 successful Sant Pere de Ribes, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The magistrate of nan 20th Preliminary Section of nan Barcelona Court of First Instance has denied for nan 3rd clip nan take of nan precautionary measures requested by nan Spanish Foundation of Christian Lawyers, which asked to suspend nan exertion of euthanasia to nan young female from Barcelona scheduled for this Thursday afternoon.  (Lorena Sopena/Europa Press via Getty Images)

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After her question and reply connected Spanish TV, respective anonymous donors and nationalist figures, including pianist James Rhodes, offered to money her curen and to supply her and her family pinch worldly assistance if she decided against having nan procedure.

The Catalan High Court of Justice confirmed to Fox News Digital that each ineligible and aesculapian requirements, including a favorable sentiment by nan Catalan Commission of Guarantee and Evaluation (CGEC), had been met and that location was thing preventing nan young female from receiving nan requested euthanasia.

Noelia died astatine 6 p.m. section clip connected Thursday astatine Hospital Sant Pere de Ribes successful Barcelona. She is nan youngest personification ever to beryllium euthanized successful Spain nether nan country’s assisted dying rule passed successful 2021.