Reason of Living: Life Changing Moments & Experiences 2020
His demand is unprecedented in the country. Since adolescence, the 42-year-old psychologist suffers from polymyositis, a rare, treatable but incurable disease that inflames and weakens the voluntary muscles of the body, those that allow large movements of different bones.
About three years ago she had to give up her autonomy and some nurses take care of her 24 hours a day.
But there is something Estrada refuses to give up: "freedom." Your freedom to choose the moment to die, when you feel that your body no longer resists.
Estrada opened the blog "Ana seeks dignified death" in January and in September launched a petition on the Change.org platform . so that the Peruvian authorities allow assisted death (illegal in Peru), which already has about 14,400 signatures.
The Peruvian told her story to BBC Mundo, and explained why she says that fighting for euthanasia does not mean that she wants to die or is suicidal, but that, according to her, is to fight for life itself.
Here is a summary of what he told us when we asked him, among other things, why he says it is the happiest moment of his life.
There are people who think [that I am depressed]. But it is the opposite.
From where I am right now, in my bed, with a finger [in my blog] I have reached many parts of the world, people I don't know.
It is as if my mind and my heart were flying through the world, something that had never happened to me. He had not had this feeling of full satisfaction.
The person who wants to die because he is depressed can be for different reasons, not just because of illness.
There is a concept of suicide as [something] self-destructive. But my case is completely different.
This is about love for life, freedom. I love life so much that a life without freedom is not life.
I have been depressed and I wanted to die. It was in 2016, after the tracheostomy.
He had lost everything. I cried every day.
I asked [my parents] "help me die." Imagine asking parents for that. And he asked as if claiming.
I feel I was unfair. But I was recovering, and that happened.
Choose to die
When I was more lucid, I decided not to [commit suicide], because there was a lot of risk, for my environment, for my family.
It would have been a death in hiding, lonely, painful, with fear.
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