Noelia Castillo Ramos, a 25-year-old paraplegic woman and sexual abuse survivor, has been euthanised by Spanish doctors.
Her death, the result of a series of tragic events and failures, was only possible after a European Court of Human Rights ruling.
Noelia had been undergoing psychiatric treatment since she was 13 and was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD).
She was raped twice during her short life, once by an ex-boyfriend and the second time by three boys in 2022, describing this as a turning point in her life. That same year she attempted suicide by jumping from the fifth-floor window of an apartment building, leaving her paralysed from the waist down. Severely depressed, Noelia said that she saw her world as “very dark” and that she had always felt alone.
