I Will Celebrate my Death

On March 28, 2005, the life of surgeon Marcos Hourmann changed forever. At dawn, a patient over 80 years old arrived at the emergency room of the hospital where he worked. Subjected to great physical suffering, the prognosis only gave her a few hours of life expectancy. The patient and her daughter asked him to definitively end their suffering. Marcos, skipping all medical protocol, injected 50 mg of potassium chloride into her vein. She died not many seconds after. Hourmann did something that no one had ever done in this country: he wrote what happened in the report. A few months later, Marcos received a notification from the court: he had been accused of murder. The family never reported it, but the hospital did. For that decision, he could spend up to 10 years in prison. Now the public will deliver the verdict. The play alternates the narrative of the events for which Dr Hourmann was convicted with episodes from his own life in his native Argentina. Could your life experience have influenced the decision to euthanise a patient?