A 25-year-old, paraplegic woman, who said she was raped on two occasions, died by euthanasia on Thursday, after her father's legal attempts to stop the proceedings were denied. Noelia Castillo Ramos, who is from Barcelona , died in the Sant Pere de Ribes long-term care facility in the city, sources confirmed to the local news outlet EL PAÍS. Euthanasia is the practice of deliberately ending a person's life to relieve suffering. Though passive euthanasia is more accepted, which is for patients