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Martha Sep\u00falveda, who was supposed to become the first person without a terminal illness to be euthanized in Colombia on Sunday, is currently still alive after intervention from authorities.<\/p>\n

According to the Washington Post<\/a>, Sep\u00falveda was awakened Friday night by her lawyer, informing her that the assisted suicide scheduled for Sunday morning had been cancelled. A medical committee had determined that she no longer qualified, as her health condition had improved. Media coverage of her case evidently played a role, with footage of Sep\u00falveda laughing and eating out at restaurants widely spread around the world.<\/p>\n

The Colombian Institute of Pain, or Incodol, told the Washington Post that her condition \u201cdoes not completely affect the functionality of the patient in instrumental activities or daily life as the patient and her family had expressed in previous medical records.\u201d Furthermore, they pointed out that Sep\u00falveda will almost certainly live longer than six months if she doesn’t take her own life.<\/p>\n

Her son, Federico Redondo Sep\u00falveda, slammed the committee for the decision, despite previously saying he wished his mother would choose to live:<\/p>\n

We should not tolerate this. It\u2019s not just the rights of Martha Sep\u00falveda. The rights of many other people that submit to these kinds of procedures, before these kinds of institutions, could also be eventually violated. This circumstance brought my mom back to her previous state of desperation and sadness, and there\u2019s nothing that can change that… We\u2019re open to having this fight for the dignity of my mother. My mom\u2019s fight is the fight of thousands of people.<\/em><\/p>\n

Previously<\/a>, he noted that supporting his mother’s assisted suicide would be a sacrifice for him. \u201cI didn\u2019t think it would happen so soon,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cShe kept saying the same thing, that if I loved her then I would support her… I saw it as the greatest act of love that I have ever done in my life because (I really) need my mother, I want her with me, almost in any condition, but I know that in her words she no longer lives, she survives.”<\/p>\n

The law firm representing Sep\u00falveda plans to appeal the decision. \u201cThey\u2019re obligating her to live a life that she is not willing to continue to live,\u201d Lucas Correa Montoya, one of the lawyers representing Sep\u00falveda, told the Washington Post. \u201cWhat has happened in the past few weeks is an example of the long road ahead for death with dignity in Colombia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet technically, there is nothing preventing Sep\u00falveda from taking her own life. A ban on assisted suicide means that health care professionals<\/em>\u00a0cannot be obligated to participate<\/em> in someone’s suicide. And her son is correct in that this decision will have an effect that reaches far beyond Sep\u00falveda herself. If she is allowed to die, then it opens the door to anyone being allowed to be killed due to an individual definition of suffering. It excuses suicide for virtually any reason, as long as the person claims to be suffering.<\/p>\n

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Martha Sep\u00falveda, who was supposed to become the first person without a terminal illness to be euthanized in Colombia on Sunday, is currently still alive after intervention from authorities. According to the Washington Post, Sep\u00falveda was awakened Friday night by her lawyer, informing her that the assisted suicide scheduled for Sunday morning had been cancelled. 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