Overview
- Noelia Castillo Ramos, 25, is scheduled for euthanasia Thursday after Spain's Constitutional and Supreme Courts and the European Court of Human Rights declined to halt the procedure.
- Her father, backed by the conservative Christian Lawyers group, filed repeated appeals arguing her mental health impaired consent, but judges found she was competent and met all legal requirements.
- The case stems from a 2022 assault in a state-run youth center and a later suicide attempt that left her paraplegic and in chronic pain, with diagnoses that include borderline personality disorder.
- In a final TV interview this week, she said she wants to "leave in peace" and noted her family opposes her choice, with her mother saying she disagrees but will stand by her.
- The European court said it will examine related human-rights claims later, and Christian Lawyers signaled new complaints against Catalan health officials and clinicians involved in the approvals.