Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old Spanish pensioner whose eviction became a flashpoint for housing rights protests across Spain, has died, a union has confirmed. In September, she was forcibly removed on a stretcher from the apartment she'd lived in for more than 70 years—an image that galvanized nationwide demonstrations and thrust Spain's housing crisis into sharp relief. The eviction wasn't a quiet administrative procedure. It was a stretcher-borne removal of an elderly woman from the only home most Spaniards could imagine her knowing. For more than seven decades, Abascal had lived in that apartment. The forced removal sparked immediate backlash, with protests erupting in cities across Spain as housing activists seized on her case as emblematic of a system that prioritizes property rights over human dignity. The union announcing her death didn't provide details on the cause or timing beyond confirming the loss. What remains is the stark trajectory: a woman who survived nearly nine decades, most of them in one place, removed by force and dead within months. Her case became a rallying cry precisely because it condensed abstract housing policy into one undeniable human cost—an 87-year-old on a stretcher, leaving home for the last time.