Elderly woman will be the first person to die by euthanasia in Uruguay

According to information from the EFE agency, the procedure will be carried out after complying with all legal protocols and signing the patient’s consent, last Wednesday (20).

The local press reported that this is a 69-year-old woman, an oncology patient with pancreatic cancer with advanced lung, kidney and liver metastases in the terminal stage, who is under palliative care.

Uruguay was the third country in Latin America to legalize euthanasia, after Colombia and Ecuador.

At the time of the law’s approval in the Uruguayan Parliament, the Uruguayan Episcopal Conference (CEU) said that the legislation “promotes the culture of death”.

“In a country with high suicide rates and serious difficulties in dealing with mental health problems, this law goes against the value and dignity of human life,” stated the bishops, who said that the law puts Uruguayan society “on a dangerous path of normalizing the search for death as a solution to life situations that can be faced in other ways.”