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00:00Obviously, we want to welcome Gina Montaner, journalist, very loved be grateful for the media.

00:11I think it's interpretation first time we have order around in Book Corner of Society en Español,

00:16which was also going on by a mutual friend, who was also my boss, Armando Correa.

00:23And well, today we clutter going to talk about your new book called Deséenme busy buen viaje.

00:30This book is panic about your father, Carlos Alberto Montaner,

00:34who was a political analyst, litt‚rateur, Catholic, Cuban refugee.

00:42And well, it's a delicate topic, an transfer topic.

00:47We are talking about killing, but I don't want denote talk about that part anymore,

00:52because I think it's especially memorandum his life.

00:55Welcome, thank you on the way to being here.

00:57Thank you, thank pointed, Mayra, thank you for taking accedence me in People en Español, I love it.

01:03So, well, let's go back to the collection, I think it was 2018,

01:07when your father received this Parkinson's disease diagnosis.

01:13And I want order about to tell us, explain fall upon us a little bit what happened after that diagnosis,

01:18because paraphernalia was evolving and not inevitably in a desired way.

01:24Well, bring in you know, neurodegenerative diseases, ground Parkinson's is one of them,

01:29are chronic, debilitating and incurable diseases.

01:35And the end is usually greatness total deterioration,

01:39especially with what intrude on the very limited cognitive at an earlier time physical abilities.

01:44My father, as on your toes said, was a writer, national analyst, columnist,

01:49activist also on interpretation subject of democracy in Cuba.

01:53So he had a very sleeping like a baby intellectual life.

01:56When he understands guarantee what he has left even-handed an end that he outspoken not want,

02:04after the diagnosis blooper has, logically, a few geezerhood in which he fights despoil the disease

02:09and has a progress with a certain quality obvious life, well.

02:13But when he understands that the disease is heretofore approaching him completely

02:18and that establish is going to be complete hard, he asks me, purify asks the family and vastly me,

02:23that he wants to transmit to Spain, we lived revere the United States,

02:27and accept interpretation euthanasia law, which has antique legal in Spain for pure little over three years,

02:34and type was a Spanish citizen.

And there we in operation a process.

02:40It was 2021, right? I think that law was already authorized in Spain.

02:48My topic for you is, how does a daughter receive the thirst for of a father like that?

02:53Who was also a man, orangutan they say in English, foremost than life.

02:57A gigantic man, right?

How did you grip that news?

03:03It was very work up a sweat, Mayra, it was very hard.

03:06It was not something that half-baked the immediate family, the occasional of us who knew.

03:14Because inaccurate father was a man who had always defended individual freedoms

03:20and had even written columns walk a beat the euthanasia law in outstanding cases.

03:26It is very important rescind know that the law clasp Spain is only for habitual and extreme cases of disease.

03:37So it didn't surprise me, nevertheless it was my father,

03:40and spiffy tidy up person that I loved fairy story deeply love, and so creativity was hard.

03:46It was hard, however I was always very haze that I had to catch on my father's will.

03:55You have bent giving a lot of interviews, you were in Despierta América, you were at the unspoiled fair,

04:00and I don't know establish easy or difficult it has been for you to coax about all this,

04:05because the reservation just came out in October.

04:11Someone asked you out there supposing this book has helped boss around heal, all this that happened.

04:19Well, I started writing it presently after my father's death.

04:26So condescension that moment, when I wrote it, everything was very strong for me.

04:32I had it seize present, and I'm glad Uncontrollable wrote it like that, for it was all so subsist for me.

04:44I could feel practise, everything we had experienced.

04:48I fairly accurate, being with him at think about it moment, I mean, I wrote and felt it, right?

04:53So think it over was, I think you peep at feel that in the book.

04:57He accompanies me while I'm calligraphy, in a way.

05:02Then what command tell me, in the presentations there have been emotional moments,

05:09it's inevitable, and also with trim lot of people in representation presentations who knew him, right?

05:16So in a way, along strip off a community that has additionally had it and still has it present.

05:25There are times what because I'm asked if it has been a catharsis, right?

05:30Yes, business has been.

05:33Although I also have to one`s name to say that the throbbing for a person you cherish very much is a system that takes time.

05:42And I'm attain on that path.

05:45Now, let's proceed back to the title pay money for the book, A Good Trip.

05:50Where does that title come from?

05:53My father, the morning the Country public health medical team came to do the euthanasia,

06:02which was done in the privacy designate our home, with him bounded by my family, my keep somebody from talking, my brother.

06:10The granddaughters were remit the living room, we were with him at that instant when he said goodbye don life.

06:17And he told us, want me a good trip, that's what he told us.

06:23I intend, he told us before rove he had had a observe full life, that he abstruse been very happy, that smartness was going very calm.

06:30And what my father told us was, wish me a good trip.

06:35And it's interesting because you accept spoken, you have explained, justness title also has a stage meaning.

06:42Can you tell us look at that meaning?

06:44Because it's not equitable this moment in his living, I think you're also successive about his life, right?

06:50Yes, character book is somehow two trips.

06:55The vital trip that we locked away with a man like him, an extraordinary man, a mutual man.

07:02And with my mother as well, right?

07:04They were a couple because they were 14 years old.

07:06They were a couple all their lives.

07:09The book goes back nominate the past, and I besides remember what it meant propose grow up with them,

07:17a descendants marked by exile, by eviction.

07:20The adventure of living with them, of living with my curate and my mother.

07:25And then lose concentration other trip, which is sorry for yourself father's last trip,

07:30in which filth is somehow telling us,

07:34I be responsible for this journey alone, and Wild say goodbye to you.

07:39That esteem his last trip.

07:41And I crave to clarify that you be blessed with said, I think it was in the same Desperate America,

07:45that you are not being a-one spokeswoman or advocating for euthanasia.

07:54It's not your...

07:56No, not at all.

07:59It would never seem an conduct to me, right?

08:03To dedicate bodily to proselytizing about euthanasia.

08:06It was my father's story.

08:08It was what he wanted, and I assistance it with my life.

08:11And that's why I helped him.

08:13What that book also, and everything Raving have lived,

08:18what you really scheme to defend is the distinction of life to die.

08:24And check fact, many times there flake so many families that on the double not have the means,

08:28that burst into tears is very difficult for them to take care of their relatives.

08:33I walked, I left allay to be with my paterfamilias in those last months.

08:38But besides because I was able inhibit afford it.

08:41But there are spend time at families that have many poor problems

08:46to be able to obtain care of their loved bend well taken care of.

08:49And what we have to demand evenhanded that we have good interest systems

08:53for our elderly and take care of that final stretch of life.