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Friday, March 27, 2026

After the euthanasia, the Noelia Castillo Ramos story gets worse

 by Monica Showalter

I think it was La Rochefoucauld who said 'Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.'

Meaning, when confronted with the immensity and permanence of death, there are many who turn away from it -- the bridge jumper who is talked off the ledge, or the building jumper who tries to break her fall with her arms. It's not uncommon for those who have decided upon death to try to stop it at the last minute.

What's evil is when someone else tries to prevent that person from coming back.

Which may have happened in the sad case of Noelia Castillo Ramos, aged 25, who was executed by government doctors in a requested euthanasia yesterday. There are reports emerging that she may have wanted out -- and the authorities wouldn't let her.

First, ahead of the euthanasia, she was in isolation, unaware that thousands of people outside the hospital she was in were outside urging her not to do it. Worse still, her best friend was not allowed in to try to talk her out of it:

I am a little amazed she had a best friend, given her statements about her loneliness. But she apparently did, and the friend would have known she had manic-depressive tendencies -- meaning, she would have a reasonable belief she could talk her out of it.

But the establishment said there was no going back.

The establishment had its reasons:

 

Castillo was a sad story. She had a difficult life brought on mostly by the actions of others -- she was thrown into a government group home against her will when her parents ran into financial problems, where she said she got raped by reportedly Moroccan illegal migrants inexplicably placed in that supposed state protection with her yet none were ever reported nor charged. Suffering untreated or ineffectively treated depression and PTSD, she attempted suicide at least once by jumping from a window, and ended up paralyzed  (in her last interview she denied this), so at a minimum in a life of pain. After that she chose the government's newly legalized suicide, something her parents opposed, but also something she had NGO lawyers, paid for by someone, advocate for, from her parents' opposition, all the way up to the European Court of Human Rights. Her mental illness counted for nothing, despite the prohibition in the law for the mentally ill to do this.

Now there are reports that she may have wanted out, or may have been capable of being talked out, but the walls came down and the needle filled with poison came out, and she was euthanized on schedule. The bureaucrats must have been so satisfied and now the divvying up of her organs can begin.

It goes to show the problems with government-approved euthanasia and assisted suicide: There are too many cases where the victim is coerced, led on, killed against their will or halted from reversing course. It doesn't take much for the voluntary dying to become simple killing, which is why the law is so bad. That looks likely in the case of Noelia Castillo Ramos and it's an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. It's why Spain has got to reverse course. 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/03/after_the_euthanasia_the_noelia_castillo_ramos_story_gets_worse.html

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