Noelia Castillo, a 25-year-old from Barcelona, Spain, will receive euthanasia after two years of requesting it and three years of being paraplegic. The young woman publicly shared some of the reasons she requested the right to euthanasia after years of abuse and suffering that caused her great pain. After her parents separated, she was for a time under the guardianship of the Generalitat, and throughout her life she experienced various episodes of abuse and sexual assault, according to El País, with the last time being a rape by three men. In 2022, the young woman jumped from the eighth floor of a building and became paraplegic, which left her unable to walk for years, with multiple ailments, and hospitalized. "I don't want anyone inside." Noelia Castillo, a 25-year-old from Barcelona, Spain, will receive euthanasia after two years of requesting it due to mental health issues and after three years of being paraplegic. The young woman announced that this Thursday, March 26, is the day she will receive euthanasia, after nearly two years of a legal process driven by Christian lawyers and her father to prevent authorities from granting her the right to a dignified death. "Let's see if I can rest, because I can't take it anymore with this family, I can't take it anymore with these pains, I can't take it anymore with everything that torments me in my head about what I've lived," Noelia Castillo commented in her last interview with the Spanish media Antena 3. Her case sparked a debate about the obstacles that exist in certain countries for the application of euthanasia, as the legal process prolonged the young woman's pain for almost two years. The case was finally resolved with the help of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, which ultimately rejected the final appeal against Noelia Castillo's wish to obtain euthanasia. This is what we know about Noelia Castillo and her obtaining of euthanasia. After presenting her case to the authorities, the Generalitat of Catalonia granted her euthanasia in July 2024; however, her father, accompanied by the ultra-Catholic association called Lawyers for Christian Life, presented a series of appeals that delayed the case. The Guarantee and Evaluation Commission of Catalonia determined that Noelia Castillo presented a "non-recoverable" clinical situation in which she suffered severe pain, chronic and disabling suffering. However, the appeals from her father, Gerónimo Castillo, and the ultra-Catholic lawyers were accompanied by violent messages against Noelia. "(My father) told me I had no heart, that I wasn't thinking of others, that everything I said was a lie. I don't want anyone to see me closing my eyes," was the young woman's message before applying for euthanasia this March 26. "It hurt me," the young woman declared. Her mother, separated from her father for 12 years and who over time accepted the decision, said that there were years of ups and downs, and although she prays for her daughter to repent, "if she doesn't want to live, I can't take it anymore either." Noelia Castillo acknowledged that during all this time of blocking her right to euthanasia, her family never agreed; however, she stated that "I'm leaving, you all stay here with all your pain, but I think: what about me, all the pain I have suffered for all these years?"
