In The good death, he 30 minutes On Sunday, Dr. Xavier Busquet defined euthanasia as an act of love. And this is what we saw. Especially starting with the story of Carina Casanovas and Fede Garcia, who were extraordinarily generous in revealing such a complex stage of their lives on camera. For Carina, it was essential that her dignified and chosen death contribute to the dissemination and vindication of euthanasia as a right and a liberation for the patient. Her story couldn't have better reflected this. The fact that the program's cameras were able to gain such close access to her entire process is a journalistic achievement and a privilege for viewers. And not so much because of what is often said about breaking the taboo, but because, in this act of transparency, we were able to take stock of Carina's life circumstances and, consequently, those of Fede. The couple's evident love moved the viewer and facilitated empathy. The countdown over seven months in Carina and Fede's lives was extraordinarily powerful, creating a certain tension in the viewer, as the end of that chronology was sensed. The cameras were always kept at just the right distance to access the protagonists' private life without prying into it. The final minutes, off-screen and through audio, surely made a good portion of the audience cry.
It was clearly a report on childbirth. It wasn't necessary to include the voices against euthanasia because the goal wasn't to create controversy or organize a debate, but rather to understand the reality of a right we as citizens have, an option we can choose. We understood that the report also spoke about each of us in the future. The good death It delved into the implications of a personal and voluntary procedure. The program fostered a process of learning and reflection necessary in all spheres: that of civil society, but also that of healthcare professionals as guarantors of this right. The report should be shown in medical schools across the country to normalize the issue within the profession.
30 minutes maintained a balance between the emotional aspects and the technical and bureaucratic procedures. The selection of interviewees was impeccable, with one relevant detail: the large number of women involved in the story revealed, once again, how there is a clear female bias in the field of care and in the fight for progress and rights. The resource of connecting the testimony of the doctors who had carried out different euthanasia procedures with the families of their patients was a very successful way of showing the experience from both perspectives. The special program that followed, hosted by Núria Solé, may have been somewhat repetitive at first, but it was necessary to organize our thoughts and recover from the emotional impact of the report. The good death It was one of those programs that opens a window to reality but that serves, above all, to look inside yourself.
