The decision is the result of a guardianship action, a Extraordinary legal remedy that protects fundamental rights, ruled in favor of Sepúlveda, affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), whose euthanasia was canceled by the Institute for controversial reasons.
According to that institution, which had already set euthanasia for the person who would become the first person to die with dignity in Colombia despite not being a terminal patient, on October 10, An internal scientific committee reviewed the case and canceled it, arguing that the law allowed it.
For Judge Omar Vásquez, of the 20th Civil Circuit Court of Medellín, the Colombian Institute of Pain violated Sepúlveda’s right to die with dignity, given that he met the “requirements” to access this procedure.
Both the government of Ivan Duque, through the Ministry of Health, as the Catholic Church have raised questions about the right to euthanasia outlining all kinds of arguments, despite the fact that the Constitutional Court this year expanded the possibility for people with serious and incurable diseases to access the right to die with dignity.
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