«Go Fabiano, your mother wants you to go“. A few minutes before pressing on the tablet that made him fall asleep forever, Fabiano Antoniani, DJ Fabo, looked at his mother and let her words make him light. It was February 27, 2017.
Four years have passed since that day and the long battle that Fabo, together with the Luca Coscioni association for the freedom of scientific research, carried out for the right to a dignified death. To the freedom of choice, not to live in a body that was no longer his, after a car accident had completely upset him, forcing him into quadriplegia.
That freedom, he found in a Swiss clinic.
At his side until the last there was Valeria Imbrogno, his partner. He decided to fix the memory of those moments, in the seventh episode of “Ossi di Cuttlefish, the noise of memory”, documentary series exclusively on RaiPlay, produced by 42 ° Parallelo. “That night, after so many years of not doing it anymore, I call him at least six or seven times. The last time before going up to the house he told me “come on, see you tomorrow at the lake”. From there I have not heard from him again ».
A few hours later Valeria Imbrogno received the call she never wanted to receive. “At that point the doctors use a term I had never considered in my life, which is quadriplegia. That is the day when I sense that Fabiano, in that situation, would have decided to end it in that situation ».
It happened two years and nine months later. «One day he tells me he has to talk to me and asks me if I would have been in his place. I answer him no and he asks me to go to Switzerland ». What happened next is the story of a legal battle over a choice that is considered a crime in Italy: euthanasia.
As the Coscioni association explains, “with the sentence 242/2019 the Constitutional Court, thanks to the civil disobedience of Marco Cappato for the help provided to DJ Fabo, also recognized the right to medically assisted suicide for people who request it in full lucidity, with irreversible pathology, unbearable physical or mental suffering and kept alive by life-sustaining treatments “.
An unthinkable result without the courage of Fabo and of those who made their battle for freedom public before him. Today in Italy there is still a law that provides for the possibility of medical aid for suicide for people who do not survive thanks to life-sustaining treatments.
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