{"id":229660,"date":"2020-08-26T10:24:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=229660"},"modified":"2020-09-16T17:39:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T22:39:13","slug":"argentine-mother-euthanasia-son-cerebral-palsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/argentine-mother-euthanasia-son-cerebral-palsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentine mother seeks to euthanize son who has cerebral palsy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman in Argentina is asking to be allowed to kill her son through euthanasia because he has cerebral palsy. Eva Bri\u00f1\u00f3coli was featured in Argentinian newspaper La Naci\u00f3n<\/a>, in which she spoke about her desire to see her 22-year-old son, Adri\u00e1n, killed.<\/p>\n

In Argentina, direct euthanasia is illegal, so Bri\u00f1\u00f3coli is trying to get a judge to hear her case and allow her to have Adri\u00e1n killed, even though he is not dying or terminally ill. Adri\u00e1n is severely disabled, and Bri\u00f1\u00f3coli paints a grim picture of suffering with no hope, and a life with no value, feeding into ableist narratives about life with disability. “Adri\u00e1n was born like this, with cerebral palsy and seizures,” Bri\u00f1ocoli said in an interview with Channel 12 of Misiones. “We went to Buenos Aires, he was in the Garrahan Hospital, they medicated him well, but nothing could be done and there is no hope of improvement, so we asked to end his suffering and that rest.”<\/p>\n

Bri\u00f1ocoli claims it is impossible to take Adri\u00e1n out of their home, and also says he “self-injures” on a regular basis, though it isn’t clear if this is intentional or not. She also admitted to being exhausted, and fed up with caring for Adri\u00e1n. “He can’t be on his own, we have to change his diapers, sanitize him, feed him, no one can come home and we can’t take him out either,” she said, adding, “Doctors always tell us the same thing: nothing can be done. I no longer know if I have life ahead of me, but we are also tired and besides, who is going to take care of it when we are not there?”<\/p>\n