Reason for dying my life

Amortanasia is based on civil disobedience and seeks “the right to assisted death as an act of love and collective self-determination, distancing itself from liberal ideas about euthanasia and individual freedom,” in the artist's words.

The installation exposes part of what this project has been, which for more than a year has accompanied terminally ill patients with prolonged suffering who, in the painful and irreversible suffering of their illnesses, have required, together with their families, in the face of the abandonment of the State, information, company and advice to achieve a dignified death (euthanasia and/or assisted suicide). The action itself marks a rupture and subverts the prevailing order, acting at the limit of the current legal framework at a time when, in parallel, a euthanasia project is being discussed for the first time in Chile in the National Congress.

The work raises the fight for freedom and self-determination of the human being, but not from a liberal point of view, but rather, from the collective, self-determination as a collective and subversive action where the body, a disputed terrain, is the scene of a battle for dignity and self-awareness and the will to decide - within a community - one's own, singular end.

Information and a device to perform euthanasia and/or assisted suicide are made available to the public at the facility, some of which have already been uploaded to the page «amorthanasia.com» which, for more than a year, was collecting information and perfecting manuals prepared by various organizations around the world, both those present in countries where euthanasia and/or assisted suicide is already legalized, as well as organizations that, clandestinely, have assisted terminally ill patients outside the legal framework in their respective countries.

Furthermore, for the first time in the country, the work makes public testimonies of Chilean people who opted for euthanasia and/or assisted suicide, prior to carrying out the action. The records (audio and video) present themselves as discursive testimonies that directly challenge the State and its authorities to legislate and decriminalize euthanasia and assisted suicide as soon as possible, and to allow a dignified and painless death for terminal patients.