A 14-year old Chilean girl who suffers from cystic fibrosis has made an emotional plea to be allowed to die, filming herself asking President Michelle Bachelet to authorize her euthanasia. In a video that media said had been uploaded to her Facebook page on Sunday, Valentina Maureira said from her hospital bed: "I am asking to speak urgently to the president because I am tired of living with this sickness and she can authorize the injection to put me to sleep forever." Cystic fibrosis is a genetic condition that affects the lungs and other organs. Maureira's brother had died of the disease, her father, Freddy Maureira, told local Radio Bio Bio. A spokeswoman from the Universidad Catolica clinic in Santiago confirmed that Valentina Maureira was a patient at the hospital and said she was stable, with no immediately life-threatening conditions. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..
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