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(Right To Life UK) — Having won an award at the Venice film festival for his pro-euthanasia film, Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar is now calling for the legalization of euthanasia worldwide and for those who disagree to keep quiet.
Almodóvar’s film The Room Next Door tells the story of a woman with cancer, played by British actress Tilda Swinton, who decides to take her own life and is supported in doing so by an old friend and author, played by Julianne Moore.
After receiving the Venice Golden Lion award, Almodóvar argued for universal access to euthanasia saying, “There should be the possibility to have euthanasia all over the world. It should be regulated and a doctor should be allowed to help his patient.”
Euthanasia for all
In the film Swinton’s character, Martha, enlists the help of an old friend, Ingrid, as they go on a country break. At the end of their break together, as Ingrid watches on from “the room next door,” Martha ends her life by ingesting a
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