Chilean government rejects plea of girl, 14, asking to for ******** suicide

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• Chile's government on Thursday rejected a plea from 14-year-old Valentina Maureira to be euthanized
• Maurerira suffers from cystic fibrosis, and watched her older brother die from the disease when he was just 6-years-old
• She said in a video that she wanted 'a shot that will make me sleep forever'
  
  

  Chile's government on Thursday rejected an ailing 14-year-old girl's plea on social media to let her 'sleep forever.'

  Cystic
  fibrosis sufferer Valentina Maureira posted a YouTube video shot from
  what appeared to be a hospital bed asking President Michelle Bachelet to
  allow her to be euthanized.

  It quickly circulated widely on social media.

  'I
  urgently request to speak to the president because I'm tired of living
  with this illness,' said the teenager, whose older brother died at age 6
  from the same disease.

  'I want her approval so I can get a shot that will make me sleep forever.'

  Presidential
  spokesman Alvaro Elizalde said Thursday that although 'it's impossible
  not to be overcome by emotion with the girl's request, it's impossible
  to grant her wish,' because it's not allowed under Chilean law.

  Elizalde
  said the health ministry was in contact with Maureira's family and was
  providing her psychological ********** as well as medical treatment.

  Maureira
  was suffering from a respiratory illness and 'significant caloric
  malnutrition' when she entered Santiago's Catholic University hospital
  Jan. 30, said Andres Castillo, the doctor in charge of her treatment.

  
  
  

  In a statement issued by the hospital, Castillo said she had been transferred out of the critical pediatric patient unit.

  'Right now our therapeutic efforts are aimed at the recovery of her nutritional state and supporting her family,' he said.

  Valentina's
  father said she will continue trying to meet with Bachelet, so the
  president, who is also a pediatrician, can 'listen to her life story.'

  'This is so tough, but I have to respect her decision because she's the one who's suffering this illness,' said Fredy Maureira.

  'I
  already lost a 6-year-old son because I didn't have enough money and
  organs. Now my daughter just wants to die in a dignified way,' he added.

  Maureira said that after he first heard his daughter's wish to die, he 'cried through the night.'

  The
  degenerative disease is affecting Valentina's liver, pancreas and lung,
  and she has said that she's frustrated by the lack of options and how
  much it has affected her quality of life.

  'She's exhausted, we're all exhausted, but if she wants to keep fighting, I'll be by her side every second,' the father said.

  'My message to all the parents in the world who have healthy kids is: Please take care of them. Love them.'

Answer 1

All they have to do is refuse to pay the Hospital bill... and she will be dead in 2 days.

Answer 2

Which means she will do it unassisted.

Answer 3

They are brutal to say the least

Answer 4

Suicide bag. An easy DIY.

Answer 5

Gosh, Valentina's story is so heart wrenching.

Answer 6

Like the way you ****** that just because I post my opinion on a poll I am interested in anyone else's opinion?

Save us both time, say "I don't like you" and block me (even though I was one of your first friends when you came to the site)

Answer 7

I was simply correcting your major ***********. You need to stop jumping to conclusion about people you know nothing about.

Answer 8

I'm just predicting the future. Relax.

Answer 9

That was not stated or even suggested.

Answer 10

I'm talking about petty things like love and BS.
There was a girl here just last month blew her brains across a wall because her boyfriend dumped her. Do not even try to say that wasn't petty and selfish.

Answer 11

Cystic Fibrosis does not kill that quickly. She could hang on for months

Answer 12

Like I stated before, there is never any 'petty' reason for suicide. Simply because they are not terminally ill, does not mean they are not suffering and in a lot of pain. There are a lot of illnesses that cause sever and chronic pain that have no cure but cause horrific pain. They destroy your entire life and take away your independence as well. You obviously have never given the issue any thought at all.

Answer 13

It's such a waste. I wish there was a way she could trade places with one of the hundreds of perfectly healthy 14 year olds that splatter thier brains across walls here in the states for petty reasons.

Answer 14

There are laws in every country about ******** suicide, even in the USA and Canada it is illegal.
In most cases they do not give you enough of any one medication at any one time to overdose on.

Answer 15

Hmmm they need govt approval? No one else who commits suicide does. her dad said something about respecting her wishes. I wonder if it was carried out. I'm sure she's on several medications that she can easily overdose on.

Answer 16

Heartbreaking. Absolutely heartbreaking.

Answer 17

People never have any 'petty' reasons for suicide. That is an appalling statement of total ignorance and totally ignores the pain and suffering of every individual who have ever contemplated suicide.

Your refusal to acknowledge the suffering of others and the emotional trauma smacks of a complete lack of humanity as well. I cannot imagine why anyone could even dream of expecting anyone to ****** that kind of pain and suffering for any longer than they decide they can possibly ******.

Answer 18

You know, I'm aginst suicide for the petty reasons most people commit suicide for,
But for terminaly Ill people who have decided that they have given up, I would look the other way.
I know in a way how the family is thinking. You don't feel it unless your in Thier shoes.
We had taken in my great great grandma since we had the room. We wern't very close, but we became close as she stayed with us. She had it all, skin cancer, bone cancer and the fact she was 93 and in a wheelchair. We watched her die for 2 years. The last 2 months were the worst. She just slept 20 hours a day, to weak to even get up out of bed on her own. We knew her body had given up, but the medications kept her alive. My mom began talking about it, openly that she wished that she would just die. And in a way we all felt like that. Even for a ****** as myself, it's dificult to watch someone suffer for real.
I know everytime I read a news story of an alleged mercy killing, I feel for those people ,because the public oppinion paints them as monsters,and the courts treat them as such. But my family got a little taste of thier world and the emotional, mental, and physical exaustion , watching someone just waste away.

Answer 19

true... sad.. but true.

Answer 20

Interesting story...Prayers.