Ana Estrada had rested her lungs for days in anticipation of this moment. Now she lay in bed with her laptop open, facing the people who would decide whether she would legally be allowed to bring her life to an end.
Simply breathing on her own, disconnected from her ventilator, she felt as though she were running a marathon. Today she would have to speak, answering questions from a panel of judges for two hours with the tube in her windpipe shut.
