Image by : Ximena Navarro/Chilean Presidency/Handout via Reuters / Reuters
4/11
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