Put a paparazzo on someone who wants to die

Attention to the headline that is marked OK Diario: “Exclusive images of the Catalan person to whom euthanasia has been authorized: without crutches, shopping and driving at full speed”. Let's overlook the derogatory point that we sense when referring to a person who does not want to live as “the Catalan” and let's focus on stopping for a second and, yes, noting that the newspaper boasts of having filmed a particular citizen who does not want to continue living to demonstrate that, well, he is not as messed up as he says if he can burn rubber and go get tobacco and medicine. It would be good for the media to clarify what state of physical deterioration they accept before allowing a Catalan to exercise a right

In fact, the newspaper throws the stone in the last sentence, when it cites anonymous sources who assure that the man needs "mental health treatment". If this is the case, hasn't anyone in the media activated the minimum instinct to say that perhaps it is not a good idea to pursue him and subject him to all this media pressure? In people with a public profile, the informational interest usually prevails over the right to privacy, but this is not the case of this man, who is also in an evident situation of vulnerability. They harass him because this way they satisfy their antisocialist (and anti-Catalan) obsession. The father, 95 years old, wants to prevent euthanasia from being applied to him and the Supreme Court must decide whether a parent has the right to do so when the son is already of age and in full faculties. The debate could be pertinent, and the trial will be ethically interesting, but in no case does it admit obscene persecutions of people who only ask for the noise of life to cease. It should not compensate for clicks.