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MADRID, Nov 19 (KUNA) -- Spain's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister
of Interior Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba affirmed Friday his socialist government
was set to get on the bandwagon of euthanasia (or mercy killing).
"The government will in March, 2011, approve a draft legislation to allow
patients with incurable illnesses to die with dignity," Rubalcaba told
reporters here after a cabinet meeting.
The legislation specifies the conditions where life-support systems should
be disconnected to allow patients have a dignified death and put an end to
their and their families' long suffering.
"In such cases medicine has tools to ensure that death takes place without
suffering," he affirmed.
The draft bill will be in line with the legislations already in place in
other European nations, the minister added. (end)
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