Martha Sepúlveda Campo, 51, was ready to die on Sunday.
Days before, she had been all smiles while joking with her son and having a beer to celebrate what would have been her death by euthanasia.
Sepúlveda would have been the first patient without an immediate terminal prognosis — those expected to live for six months or less — to receive euthanasia in Colombia, a country considered a pioneer in the right to a dignified death, both in Latin America and globally.
But on Saturday, a committee from the center where she had planned to undergo euthanasia, the Instituto Colombiano del Dolor, reversed the decision, saying Sepúlveda does not meet the requirement for being terminal.
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