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On Tuesday, an 82-year-old Italian man with atypical parkinsonism was euthanized. Swisswhere he traveled accompanied by an activist Marco Cappato given the impossibility of obtaining euthanasia in his country.
“He would rather die at home accompanied by his loved ones,” his daughter Francesca said in the video.
The man’s name was Roman82-year-old former journalist, and asked for help to travel to Swiss die, as Italian law does not provide for such a possibility, since he was not yet dependent on life support.
His wife called her partner’s decision “conscious and responsible” and insisted in statements to the media that “choosing the end of life is a fundamental right.”
“My husband suffers from a serious neurodegenerative disease, a very aggressive form of Parkinson’s disease that has completely paralyzed his limbs and caused very severe dysphagia that will soon lead to force feeding,” she explained.
Activist traveled with patient Marco Cappatomember of the Luca Coscioni association, who has already helped other patients reach Swiss get help for suicide.
In doing so, Cappato confirmed that he would condemn himself, as he had done on other occasions, most recently in August, after accompanying a lung cancer patient who wanted to be euthanized after doctors diagnosed she had months to live.
Euthanasia in Italy
AT ItalyMedically assisted suicide is allowed in some cases thanks to a 2019 Constitutional Court ruling that settled the case against Cappato himself, also a spokesman for the Italian Radical Party.
The text states that euthanasia is “possible and legal” when “the patient who requests it is afflicted with an irreversible pathology, a source of unbearable physical or mental suffering, is fully capable of making free and informed decisions, and is kept alive by treatment with life support.” .”
Nonetheless, Roman He did not fit that description because, although he was bedridden and, according to the association, in “severe muscle pain”, he did not need to be put on life support as the sentence required. (EFE)
Source: RPP
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