Mario is dead. After years and months of waiting, the drug and the tool to administer it arrived. Mario, the name is the fictional one with which we met Federico Carboniis the first Italian who was able to choose assisted suicide. Tetraplegic for about 10 years due to a car accident the 44-year-old from Senigallia […]
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Assisted suicide: Mario will have to pay for the medicines
He chose not to reveal his name. We know it as “Mario“. He is 44 years old, from the Marche region and since 2010 he has been quadriplegic after an accident. Mario is the first person in Italy to have obtained the right to medically assisted suicide. On this issue there is a sentence of […]
Fabio Ridolfi: “If the state doesn’t help me die, I choose deep sedation”
He made it known using his eye pointer, why for 18 years he has been immobilized in bed: «For two months my suffering has been recognized as unbearable. I have all the conditions to be helped to die. But the state ignores me. At this point I choose deep sedation and continue even if it […]
Fabio Ridolfi’s appeal: “Dear Italian State, help me die”
«Dear Italian State, I have been reduced to this for 18 years. Every day my condition becomes more and more unsustainable. Help me to die ». L’Luca Coscioni Association re-launches the appeal of Fabio Ridolfi, 46 years old from Fermignano, in the province of Pesaro Urbino. For 18 years he has been immobilized due to […]
Samantha D’Incà is dead. Family members: “To love also means to let go”
The heart of Samantha D’Incà he stopped beating last Saturday. The family members, who have defended the right to a decent end of life for fifteen months, have chosen to pull the plug away from any clamor, in a last gesture of love, in the Rsa di Cavarzano in the province of Belluno where it […]
Assisted suicide, ok to the drug for Mario, Cappato: “Now he is free to choose”
“Now Mario is free to choose”. These are the first words of Marco Cappatotreasurer of the Luca Coscioni Association, after the OK given by the regional health authority of the Marche to the administration of “Tiopentone” to Mario, 43, quadriplegic since 2010. A decision that he had been waiting for eighteen months and that comes […]