2024-07-17 03:07:10
During the last day of the ordinary period, the plenary session of the Congress of Puebla approved by majority vote the authorization of The LAdvance Directive Law which allows a terminally ill person to end his or her life with dignity and without suffering.
Local legislator of the Labor Party (PT), Miguel Octaviano Huerta Rodriguezthe board of directors stressed that the proposal is based on dignifying life and that in order to proceed with this, patients must request a document.
“It is not just any document, it is required by all the formalities so that the will and dignity are always legally protected.”
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This new regulation allows someone who has been evicted voluntarily suspend your curative treatment and immediately start another to alleviate the suffering, however, it should be noted that this It is not similar to euthanasia.
Patients interested in accessing the advance directive will have to fill a format personally before a notary public or health personnel with two witnesses.
The document will contain the personal details of the interested party, the appointment of a representative or substitute to ensure compliance with the wishes, and the statement as to whether or not to donate organs.
For their part, notaries and members of the health sector will notify the specialized room (which will be an organ that will be created) to keep a count of the patients who seek to exercise their advance directive.
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It is important that witnesses do not be minors, family physicians of the patient, mentally unstable persons or those who speak a language other than the one the patient understands, as well as those who have been convicted of the crime of forgery.
This advance directive may also be accessed minors who suffer from a terminal illness, although the procedure would be carried out by a guardian or parent.
The vote carried out in the plenary session of Congress was 34 votes in favor, two against and four abstentions, however, the publication of the law in the official newspaper of the state to come into force.
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2024-07-17 03:07:10