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Maybe, later, you will back

out, precisely out of fear...

Do not act based on fear.

You are supposed to support people

that want to commit suicide, right?

No.

Do you think that I go

around telling people with...

...problems that the best

is to get out of the way...

No. What we support is freedom.

The freedom of those that want

to live and those that want to die...

Is very different...

And CADASIL is a very

f***ed up disease, I agree...

But I only ask that you

think it a little bit more...

Ramon, gave me this for you...

If you want, we can talk

some other day about this...

How do you see her?

Fine...

Really? I also think she is fine...

- Ok. Nice to meet you

- Thanks for coming...

You are welcome...

- I'll stay a while longer

- OK

Dear Julia... When Gen told

me that a lawyer wanted my case...

...there was something

that influenced my decision...

...and it was the fact that the lawyer

suffered a degenerative disease...

I thought that only

someone in that condition...

...could really understand mine...

And shared my hell...

Now I know that living

in that hell is...

...sometimes worth it, if one

gets to meet people like you...

Is worth it to have shared

a cigarette with them...

...or, like right now,

caressing them even if...

...its just by writing some

foolishness like this...

And talking about foolishness,

I'm correcting my writings...

With the hope that you will

come soon and give me a hand...

For now, my nephew Javi is helping

me by copying them on his computer...

For the rest, life continues

just the same, you know

Manuela kept the whole month covering...

...me so next year doesn't

catch me off guard...

Javi keeps fighting with

his grandpa and sometimes I

...make up little chores so

they spend more time together...

This month some friends came to visit.

Some of them have been

doing it for 25 years...

...and that keeps surprising me...

They enjoy telling me their stories...

Do you remember Rosa? The

girl from the conserve factory.

I think she found here

some kind of refuge...

The other day she

wanted to help Manuela to...

...change my clothes, and

they ended up arguing...

I proved again that

when you depend on...

...someone for everything,

you lose your privacy...

Well... I hope to keep

my little kingdom in...

...order until you can cheer

me up with your presence...

A big hug.

What's going on?

Let's see. What does it say here?

"No es asi la vida que va" (The

life that goes is not like that)

No sir. It has to say "No es as la vida.

Qu va" (Life is not like that. No way)

- No

- Yes. And that "Qu" has accent...

That "Qu" has accent. Do

you see it? Right there.

"Death is my friend," where's the colon?

What are they teaching you in school?

You have to pay attention

to what I give you...

Even your grandpa would do it better...

Look Javi, if this is the way you are

going to help I rather

you didn't do it, ok?

Because you make me work twice...

Give me the stick. Give me the stick...

Put a little more attention, ok?

- Javi, what happened?

- Nothing...

Dear Ramon... Please forgive me for

taking so long in

answering your letter...

But the doctors have limited

me the use of the computer and...

...in general, any activity that

doesn't make me use my legs...

They assure me that Ill

be able to walk again but...

...they say that I shouldn't

continue with your case...

In the physical therapy

room there's a huge window

Sometimes I imagine that I go through

it and fly, like you, over Barcelona...

I reach the sea and keep flying

until I can only see that

endless line of water...

And think, foolish me,

that if you do the same from...

Corunna, maybe you'll

go around the world again...

And we end up finding each

other in some part of the planet...

I identify with you when you mention

the lack of freedom and privacy...

I try to bear with it, mainly for my...

...husband that takes care

of me with much dedication...

But at the same time, I refuse

to fall into this inertia...

where I just can be

grateful for what is given...

...because I have no other

choice but to accept it...

I wish Ill be able to see

you in a couple of months...

And I keep my promise of

helping you with the book...

Until then receive the thanks

and a hug from a very good friend...

I knew this could happen, I knew

it. We are going to have to try again...

No Mark, how can you say

that we have to try again?

As if justice is so

swift in this country...

No. And now it is me the

one that has to tell him...

The demand of the tetraplegic

Ramon Sampedro requesting the...

...euthanasia was rejected yesterday by

the tribunals due to

defects in its form...

The sentence says that the judicial...

...process should have

been started in Corunna...

where he resides, and

not in Barcelona...

Many voices have been

raised due to this...

...case among them is

priest's Francisco de Galdar...

...tetraplegic like Ramon...

Ramon says he doesn't want

to live anymore, but I wonder...

...isn't it possible

that Ramon is asking of...

...society, of all of us,

some kind of attention...

What is he talking about?

Maybe is that the

people that surround him...

...doesn't provide the love

or support that he needs...

That moron...

Couldnt it be possible that what

Ramon is asking is for more love?

I would really like to

talk to him and convince...

...him that there are many

reasons to keep on living...

Aren't you going to school?

I hope you are happy now!

Our whole family

humiliated on television...

But keep it up, keep it up. Until

our faces fall out of embarrassment...

And you dad? Aren't you

going to tell him anything?

Don't involve dad in

this. Whatever you...

...have to tell me, do

it and be done with it...

I'm going to tell you something

Ramon. I am the older brother...

Listen to me, listen

to me for a moment...

What if you have an accident

tomorrow and you die?

Have you thought about it?

What would happen to me? I would have

to take care of the family, right?

Of your wife, your son, dad... With

that miserable pension of mine...

If I stay alive, Ill make

things a lot more difficult...

I'm going to tell you something

Ramon. I am the older brother...

I am the older here. And while Im

alive, no one is getting killed here...

No one in this house is getting

killed. Put that in your head, Ramon...

No one!

- Ok, son. I'll leave

- See you tomorrow dad...

I'll go...

Hi Manuela, I came to see Ramon...

But, do you know what time it is?

I know. I couldn't come

sooner. I'll explain it to Ramon...

I don't think he's in the mood

of visits. He had a bad day...

Why don't you come

tomorrow? Or the day after?

It's important...

The conserve factory is closing...

That things are not going

well. That there's no money to pay us...

And that we are fired...

There's no right, damn it!

There's no right.

- Forgive me Ramon

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