When No Will Can Be Interpreted or Communicated: Paediatric Euthanasia in a Case of a Never-Competent Minor with Profound Cognitive Disability in a Latin American Context.
Colombia's Constitutional Court ruling T-057 of 2025 addresses one of the most morally demanding questions in contemporary bioethics: whether surrogate-requested euthanasia can ever be justified for a patient who has never possessed decisional and communicational capacity. The case concerned Mateo, a sixteen-year-old a...