Fortnight in pictures - Feb 28 to March 13

From doctors giving hope to patients with laughter to a teenage girl’s plea to die
Published: Mar 20, 2015
Fortnight in pictures - Feb 28 to March 13

Image by : Ximena Navarro/Chilean Presidency/Handout via Reuters / Reuters

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  • Fortnight in pictures - Feb 28 to March 13
  • Fortnight in pictures - Feb 28 to March 13
  • Fortnight in pictures - Feb 28 to March 13
  • Fortnight in pictures - Feb 28 to March 13
  • Fortnight in pictures - Feb 28 to March 13
  • Fortnight in pictures - Feb 28 to March 13
  • Fortnight in pictures - Feb 28 to March 13
  • Fortnight in pictures - Feb 28 to March 13
  • Fortnight in pictures - Feb 28 to March 13
  • Fortnight in pictures - Feb 28 to March 13
  • Fortnight in pictures - Feb 28 to March 13
Chile's President Michelle Bachelet (right) poses for a selfie with Valentina Maureira, a 14-year-old girl who suffers from cystic fibrosis, at a hospital in Santiago on February 28. Maureira made an emotional plea to be allowed to die, filming herself, asking Bachelet to authorise her euthanasia. In the video which was uploaded from her hospital bed, she says: "I am asking to speak urgently to the president because I am tired of living with this sickness and she can authorise the injection to put me to sleep forever