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) hnd.gb KUNA 192351 Nov 10NNNN