Assisted Suicide Rejected in Scotland While Spain "Euthanizes" mentally ill 25 year old woman.

 From March 18. 2026

By Dave Doveton, Anglican Mainstream,

Yesterday, in Holyrood, MSP’s voted to reject the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill.

This indeed is a tremendous victory for all those who worked in the campaigns against this proposed dark legislation. It is encouragement for us all, especially Christians standing for the truth in the public square. Even when odds seem stacked against us with celebrities, media personalities, and influencers in the culture at large supporting assisted suicide.

It is also a victory for the terminally ill, and those in palliative care, the elderly in general – who all would have faced pressure under this legal regime to ‘go along’ with what a new legal regime was now telling them was the ‘right’ thing to do.

Along with proposed changes to the abortion legislation, this is a struggle against an encroaching ‘culture of death’ which must and can be beaten with perseverance and faith in the God of life, and his son Jesus Christ who came ‘that we might have life, and life abundant’.

Two truths are paramount in this debate;

The nature of true compassion:  Mike Judge has summed this up well, ‘True compassion does not mean helping someone to die, but committing ourselves to care for them in life.’ That statement captures a truth which modern society often forgets. Compassion is not measured by how quickly we remove suffering by eliminating the sufferer, but by our willingness to bear one another’s burdens.

The Christian doctrine of man: The fact is, encouraging suicide is to encourage an attack on the image of God, as every human being is made in his image.

Finally, these victories help not only the citizens of Great Britain, but also those of many other countries where assisted dying is being vigorously promoted, and legislation proposed.

Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory.

Meanwhile, in Spain this case from Fox News illustrates what could have happened in Scotland,  

Noelia Castillo Ramos, 25, died Thursday after receiving euthanasia in Sant Pere de Ribes, Barcelona, following a legal battle of more than a year. 

Castillo Ramos' parents divorced when she was 13 and spent almost four years in public tutelage centers when she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) — a serious psychiatric condition often leading to severe depression, suicide ideation and a tendency to addiction.

By her own account, in an interview she gave before dying to Spanish TV channel Antena 3 she tried to commit suicide at least twice despite being under intensive psychiatric care. In her first suicide attempt, she took several pills and ingested a toxic automotive liquid, but was saved by her mother, who took her to the hospital for a gastric-intestinal cleansing procedure.

Things got worse for her when she left the home and ended up being sexually assaulted multiple times when she was about 20. First, she was sexually abused by a former boyfriend after taking sleeping pills. Soon after, two men attempted to rape her while in a nightclub, leaving her deeply scarred, and as reports indicate, this led her to a care home for worsening psychiatric symptoms.

There, she was gang-raped by three men. With her mental state deteriorating, she attempted suicide by jumping out of the fifth floor of a building.

Multiple reports and social media posts originally indicated that the three rapists who assaulted her were immigrant minors under the care of the state – something the Barcelona-based newspaper El Periódico says is false.

Many Spaniards have reacted angrily the court's authorization for her to receive euthanasia, accusing the leftist government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of not providing the girl with adequate medical care, opening up the country to mass migration, lack of policing and ultimately handing down euthanasia as a solution to her case.

I have treated many people who attempted suicide and I believe that there is hope for everyone of them to recover given time, love, support, and therapy. Jesus can heal even the mentally ill as recounted in the Bible. Why not give Him a chance?