'Let me die' crusade

TERMINAL: YOUNG WOMAN FIGHTS TO LEGALISE EUTHANASIA IN MEXICO

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ALWAYS SMILING. Samara Martinez, who suffers from chronic renal failure in the terminal stage, shares the process of her illness through social media from her home in Chihuahua, Chihuahua state, Mexico.

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Samara Martinez, a young Mexican woman who is sick and dying, smiles as she asks her many TikTok followers a difficult question.

The 30 year old lives with several chronic and degenerative diseases, including kidney failure, and spends 10 hours a day hooked up to a dialysis machine to survive.

"Instead of seeking euthanasia, why don't I just unplug the machine and say goodbye?" Martinez, a journalist by trade, says in her video.

She then explains to her nearly 400 000 followers what it is like to suffer from several terminal diseases and why she is spearheading a campaign to legalise a person's right to euthanasia in Mexico.