Authorization for medically assisted suicide was granted for the first time in Italy. The Ethics Committee of the reference healthcare company, in this case Asur Marche, expressed favorably. The four conditions highlighted by the Constitutional Court in the 2019 ruling were found legal basis for approving the use of the lethal drug.

Assisted suicide: 4 conditions

What are the requirements, legally speaking, to authorize assisted suicide? Here they are listed:

  • the subject is kept alive only by life-sustaining treatment
  • the patient is suffering from an irreversible pathology
  • intolerable suffering due to the medical condition is reported
  • he / she is fully capable of making free and informed decisions

So the time has come to fulfill your desire for Mario (invented name, ed). Assisted suicide comes as a liberation for the 43-year-old truck driver from Pesaro, became quadriplegic after a serious accident. His request had been made for more than a year. It has now obtained the green light from the Ethics Committee after a long battle, favored by the sentence on the cado di DJ Fabo.

Assisted suicide, first time in Italy

To support the patient was theCoscioni association, which in fact made possible the realization of Mario's wishes, who had to fight hard to see his right to a dignified death recognized, in compliance with his decisions: “I feel lighter, I have emptied myself of all the tension accumulated over the years”.

Specifically, he had received a refusal from the Asur, as well as a first and second final decision of the Court of Ancona. Asur Marche had also warned him legally twice. However, everything changed after obtaining the opinion of the Ethics Committee, which verified his physical and mental conditions, using a team of medical specialists appointed by the Marche Regional Health Authority. The possession of the necessary requirements was thus confirmed.

Here are the words of the lawyer Philomena Gallo, secretary of the Coscioni association and co-defender of Mario: “I think it's very serious that it took a long time. For the first time, however, in Italy an Ethics Committee has confirmed the existence of the conditions for assisted suicide for a sick person ".

A new, conclusive phase is now opening. We will proceed to respond to Asur Marche and the Ethics Committee, in relation to the methods of implementation. In this way, the Constitutional ruling and the decision of the Court of Ancona will be respected. Mario and his team of lawyers will make use of an expert, so as to study the methods of self-administration of the suitable drug. The sentence entrusts the public structure with the sole task of verifying these methods.

Because it is only the first case

Marco Cappato, Treasurer of the Coscioni Association, explained the importance of this story. The ruling of the Constitutional Court has in fact legalized assisted suicide. To date, however, no patient has been able to benefit from it: “The National Health Service hides behind the absence of a law defining the procedures. Mario is still moving forward thanks to the courts, thus making clear the blameworthiness in progress. After moving the local health authority that refused to start the process, now it was the turn of the Ethics Committee ".

Everything will take place in Mario's house, according to his decision. Man will have absolute freedom of choice. In fact, he may also decide not to continue, changing his opinion a few moments before. What matters is that he is legally authorized to do so. The process will take place without the intervention of any external party.

Mario will be able to administer the drug thanks to the use of the little finger of his right hand, without any medical actions required. Finally he will be able to do it in Italy, in a place dear to him, despite having obtained the authorization to do so in Switzerland in August 2020, where assisted suicide is allowed. Finally his wishes have been respected.

Source of the photograph in evidence: Legal euthanasia referendum-https: //www.instagram.com/associazione_luca_coscioni/

First assisted suicide in Italy: this is how it was authorized last edit: 2021-11-24T09:03:22+01:00 da Luca Crowned

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