Noelia Castillo, a 25-year-old Spaniard, received euthanasia this Thursday after a long legal battle with her father. The young woman became paraplegic as a result of a suicide attempt. Noelia, as she is known, died this Thursday in the center of Sant Pere de Ribes, about 40 km from Barcelona.
Noelia, who became paraplegic in 2022 after jumping from a fifth floor in a suicide attempt, recounted a life full of suffering and marked by her parents’ problems, which led her to spend stretches of her childhood supervised by the administration.
Likewise, she described having subsequently suffered sexual assaults by men and suicide attempts.
“None of my family is in favor of euthanasia. I’m leaving, you stay here with all the pain, but I think, what about me, all the pain that I have suffered during all the years?”, he indicated during the interview, in which his mother also participated.
The young woman originally from Barcelona obtained the endorsement of national and international judicial bodies to undergo the procedure that ended her life on March 26, 2026, after arguing intense pain and traumatic paraplegia derived from a fall due to a suicide attempt after a sexual assault.
In Spain, Parliament approved the law in 2021 that decriminalizes euthanasia, making the European country one of the few that allow an incurable patient to receive help to die and avoid “intolerable suffering”, as long as they meet strict requirements.
“Let’s see if I can finally rest, because I can’t take it anymore. I can’t take any more with this family, I can’t take any more with the pain, I can’t take any more with everything that torments me,” he had explained in an interview broadcast on Wednesday on the Antena 3 network.
Noelia’s case generated a great impact in Spain, a country with a deep Catholic heritage, after her father began a legal battle to stop the assistance in dying that experts from the Guarantee and Evaluation Commission of the region of Catalonia had authorized for his daughter.
Shortly before the first date set, in August 2024, the parent filed an appeal that managed to temporarily stop the process.
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