. >> my name is balintina. i'm 14 years old and i suffer from cystic fibrosis.ask to peek is to the president urgently because i'm tired of living with this illness. she can authorize an injection to make me sleep forever. >> her plea for assisted suicide has gone from chile and beyond. her brother michael also died from the same disease when he was six years old. and she says that she doesn't want to die suffering as did he. >> my son struggled for six years, and i saw him fading away until he suffocated in my arms. a few weeks ago balintina saw her best friend in the hospital die from the same disease and that hit her hard. >> thanks to her highly publicized message she has been transferred to a public hospital to this private facility where her father says she's getting better care. the president herself came to visit but refused her request arguing that euthanasia is against chilean law. >> it is a controversial issue and in socially conservative chile, her request has triggered a heated debate. >> it is an atrocity, especially in children because they would