Samara Martinez, a young Mexican woman who is sick and dying, smiles as she asks her many TikTok followers a difficult question.

The 30-year-old lives with several chronic and degenerative diseases, including kidney failure, and spends 10 hours a day hooked up to a dialysis machine to survive.

“Instead of seeking euthanasia, why don’t I just unplug the machine and say goodbye?” Martinez, a journalist by trade, says in her video.

She then explains to her nearly 400,000 followers what it is like to suffer from several terminal diseases — and why she is spearheading a campaign to legalize a person’s right to euthanasia in Mexico.

As she prepares to answer her initial question, the camera zooms in on Martinez’s face for a close-up.

“Because I do not want to suffer and I want to die with d

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