Always True: Patients Can Refuse Treatment

This is misleading, implying that the Spanish are in favor of hastening death aka euthanasia or assisted suicide. All that's happened is that the Spanish have confirmed that, as is the case in most places, patients can declare that they want no more medical treatment because they are at peace with the natural dying process.

Terminally ill could get right to die faster under law approved by Spanish government

The Spanish government has approved a law that gives terminally ill patients the right to hasten their deaths by halting medical treatment. more