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7 NEWS maltatoday | SUNDAY • 7 APRIL 2024 JOB OPPORTUNITY FOR INFO VISIT ARTSCOUNCIL.MT CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS 19 TH APRIL 2024 AT NOON HEAD (PROCUREMENT & ADMINISTRATION) INTERESTED APPLICANTS ARE REQUIRED TO SEND A MOTIVATION LETTER TOGETHER WITH A CV AND COPIES OF CERTIFICATES TO VACANCIES@ARTSCOUNCIL.MT WITH ARTS COUNCIL MALTA • JOBSPLUS PERMIT NO.: 131/2024 her aunt's final days as she wrestled with Motor Neuron Disease. "I watched her struggling to breath... struggling to tell me things and not being able to... resorting to writing it down but only managing a few squiggly lines, all the while being in her full senses," the woman said. Detailing the emotional pain suffered by herself and her family, she added: "What a cru- el way to exit the world; no dig- nity, panicked because of her difficulty to breathe." Heartbroken, she shared an interaction with a nurse who told her that despite her aunt being in a painful state, noth- ing could be done to ease her pain, before adding, "she only has a few days left, it will end soon." "If I had the means and the courage, I would have helped my aunty end her misery there and then," she told this news- paper. Discussion on euthanasia is in the pipeline By the end of this legislature, Malta is set to have a discussion on euthanasia if the Labour Party fulfils its electoral pledge. The PL 2022 general election manifesto said: "The time has come for a national, mature discussion on the introduction of voluntary euthanasia for ter- minally ill patients." In November 2022, Prime Minister Robert Abela said a debate on euthanasia must lead to an eventual decision. The Nationalist Party had stated it is against euthanasia. During a ceremonial mass shortly before President Myr- iam Spiteri Debono took her Oath of Office on Thursday, Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna used his homily to advise the new President to, "defend all life from the beginning of its existence until its natural end." faced with incurable conditions Those who would choose to end their own life immediately to avoid suffering accounted for 30.7% of respondents, while those who would prefer to endure the pain and prolong life as much as possible made up 28.1% of respondents