Luis Montes Mieza
Luis Montes | |
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Born | 1949 Villarino de los Aires, Spain |
Died | 19 April 2018 Murcia, Spain | (aged 68–69)
Nationality | Spanish |
Alma mater | Complutense University of Madrid |
Occupation(s) | Anesthetist Activist |
Years active | 1987–2018 |
Employer | Severo Ochoa Hospital of Leganés |
Known for | Accused of homicide by giving "dignified death" to terminally ill patients. First Spanish Law of Dignified Death approved thanks to him. |
Political party | Podemos |
Luis Montes Mieza (1949 – 19 April 2018), was a Spanish anesthetist and pro-euthanasia activist. He was the Federal President of the association "Derecho a Morir Dignamente" from 2009 till his death.[1]
Academic and professional biography
Montes had a degree in Medicine from the
Leganés case
Complaint of the Regional Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid against Luis Montes and Miguel Ángel López - Dismissed
In May 2005 Luis Montes Mieza and
Complaint by Luis Montes and Miguel Ángel López against the Evaluation Commission - Dismissal
On 28 January 2009, Luis Montes Mieza and Miguel Ángel López filed a complaint - admitted for processing - for false accusation and falsehood against Manuel Lamela Fernández and the six doctors who signed the report with which he was accused of incriminating - Isidro Álvarez Martín, of the Regional Ministry of Health; Hernán Cortés-Funes, of Hospital 12 de Octubre; Manuel Gómez Barón, of Hospital Universitario La Paz; DoloreS Crespo Hervás, of Hospital Ramón y Cajal; Francisco López Timoneda, of Hospital Clínico de Madrid and Bartolomé Bonet Serra, of the Hospital de Alcorcón-.[3] In April 2011 the chief of the Court of Instruction Number 43 of Madrid agreed on the "free dismissal and the file" of the complaint.[4]
Luis Montes's complaint against Miguel Ángel Rodríguez for insults - Conviction
In April 2011, the sentence condemning Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, former spokesman of the government of José María Aznar, was convicted to pay 30,000 euros as the author of a "continuing offense of serious injury with advertising" against Luis Montes Mieza.[5][6]
Federal Presidency of the Right to Die Dignity association
From 2009 until his death on 2018, Luis Montes was the Federal President of the association Right to Dignify Dignity, an association that defends the decriminalization of
In 2011 the government of
Death
Montes died on 19 April 2018, of a heart attack, while driving to Molina de Segura (Region of Murcia).[9]
References
- ^ QUIÉNES SOMOS Archived 20 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ Lamela declarará ante la juez por denuncia falsa en el 'caso Leganés' (in Spanish)
- ^ Las sedaciones de Leganés retornan a los Juzgados con Montes como acusación (in Spanish)
- ^ Archivada la querella del doctor Montes contra Lamela (in Spanish)
- ^ Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, condenado por llamar "nazi" al doctor Montes (in Spanish)
- ^ MIGUEL ÁNGEL RODRÍGUEZ BAJÓN : UN BOCAZAS REINCIDENTE (in Spanish)
- ^ La medicina no está para alargar muertes inevitables". Luis Montes fue diana de la opinión pública tras ser acusado de practicar sedaciones irregulares a pacientes terminales en el Hospital Severo Ochoa. La Justicia lo absolvió en 2008 y hoy continúa su tarea de defender el derecho a morir dignamente, 16/10/2010 (in Spanish)
- ^ La ley de Muerte Digna permitirá al enfermo terminal decidir sobre el final de su vida (in Spanish)
- ^ Muere Luis Montes, el anestesista que en 2005 fue investigado por 'mala praxis' en las sedaciones a pacientes terminales (in Spanish)