Several Spanish Catholic bishops have issued blistering rebukes of gang-rape victim Noelia Castillo’s highly publicized euthanasia death – saying it’s a reflection of the current state of society.
“We have all failed as a society,” said José Mazuelos Pérez, the Bishop of the Canary Islands, EuroNews reported.
He said Spain’s right to die law, passed in 2021, was “another step towards a culture of death, throwing in the towel on the humanization of medicine.
“There is a desire to require the doctor to end Noelia’s life, when a doctor’s mission is to cure and, if they cannot cure, to accompany and relieve,” he continued.
Castillo, 25, opted to legally kill herself Thursday following years of pain – after a suicide attempt left her paralyzed from the waist down. The young woman – whose own father vehemently opposed her choice to die by euthanasia – had been traumatized by multiple sexual assaults, including a gang rape by three men.
“I want to go now and stop suffering, period. None of my family is in favor of euthanasia. But what about all the pain I’ve suffered during all these years?” she said in an interview with Spanish Antena 3 program “Y Ahora Sonsoles.”
Castillo was approved for assisted suicide in 2024, but the approval was challenged by her father, who was supported by the conservative religious Spanish group Abogados Cristianos (Christian Lawyers).
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