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DMDA bases these forecasts on reports from other nations such as the Netherlands and Belgium.
The Right to Die with Dignity Association of Aragon (DMDA) foresees that the euthanasia requests in Aragon, once the law that regulates it comes into force on June 25, there will be about 120 per year, which could reach some 400 in several decades, the majority due to terminal or metastatic cancer (65%).
DMDA bases these forecasts on reports from other nations such as the Netherlands and Belgium, which have been regulating dignified death for years, as well as the little data available in the community, its spokesperson, Consuelo Miqueo, explained this Tuesday in the Commission of Citizen Appearances and Human Rights of the Cortes, who does not believe it is a challenge " difficult to face."
After cancer, the other diseases that will affect the beneficiaries of this new right will be polypathologies own of older ages (10-15%) y neurodegenerative diseases (10-12%) such as ALS, dementia or Alzheimer's, Miqueo has advanced.
The DMDA spokesperson has warned ofThe "confusion" that euthanasia arouses one month after its entry in force between health professionals and potential patients, which is why it has requested interdepartmental collaboration in the regional government, as well as the necessary training.
Likewise, from the associationn have requested to update the advance directive document, which already has 11.000 registrations in Aragon, 70% women, to include the option of announcing in advance the desire to receive euthanasia if the patient's health deteriorates in an "irreversible" way to the point of making communication impossible.
Miqueo has also proposed expanding the assumptions in which People can end their lives under 18 years of age, mental health patients whose illness is the only reason for wanting to die and those people who claim to have completed "their biographical trajectory."
In the turn of the parliamentary groups, the socialist deputy Sergio Ortiz has announced that the Decree that will regulate the Guarantees Commission and the list of conscientious objector professionals provided for in the euthanasia law is already in the public information phase.
Except PP and Vox, who voted against it in Congress, The rest of the groups in the Cortes have supported this norm, that expands the rights of citizens, according to Nacho Escartín (Vamos), and that for Cs is not exclusive of palliative care, has pointed out Susana Gaspar, who has requested a law in this sense, as well as adapting the Aragonese regulations of 2011 to the new law.
For their part, José Antonio Lagüéns (PP) and Santiago Morón (Vox) have required "quality" palliative care.
