Placard reading “My life is mine” during a demonstration in support of euthanasia in Spain.
Madrid:
Spain’s parliament gave final approval to a law legalising euthanasia Thursday, becoming one of the few nations to allow terminally-ill or gravely-injured patients to end their own suffering.
The vote, which passed by 202 votes in favour and 141 against and two abstentions in the 350-seat chamber, makes Spain the fourth European nation to decriminalise assisted suicide, alongside the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.
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