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Fabio asks for assisted suicide: "The state help me to die"

2022-05-18T08:51:30.382Z


"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". (HANDLE)


 "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".

This is the appeal of Fabio Ridolfi, 46 years old from Fermignano (Pesaro Urbino), immobilized for 18 years due to a tetraparesis from rupture of the basilar artery.

He can only move his eyes and communicates through an eye pointer.

Assisted by the Coscioni Association, he turned to Asur (Single Regional Healthcare Company) Marche which, following the jurisprudence created by the cases of 'Mario' and Antonio ', activated the checks required by the Constitutional Court sentence Cappato / dj Fabo. 

End of life, Fabio's appeal: 'Dear Italian State, help me to die'


Fabio was subjected to all the necessary medical examinations but, since March 15 when the medical report was sent to the Marche Region Ethics Committee - the Luca Coscioni Association said - "no opinion has yet been received, neither on his conditions nor on how to proceed with medically assisted suicide ".

Fabio is the third Italian to apply for assisted suicide, after Mario and Antonio, the fictional names of two quadriplegics, also from the Marches.

In contact with Mina Welby for some time, he had also considered the possibility of going to Switzerland.

Unlike the other two, who preferred anonymity, Fabio made his name and face known, broadcasting a video in which he is seen composing his appeal with the eye pointer.

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Fabio asks to put an end to his suffering in a painless way, with the fastest and most respectful ways of his dignity.

It is his right, based on the sentence of the Constitutional Court in the Cappato / Antoniani case - declared Filomena Gallo and Marco Cappato, national secretary and treasurer of the Luca Coscioni Association -.

Once again, as happened with Mario and Antonio, Asur's delay in responding to his request, in violation of legal obligations, entails suffering which for Fabio has been unbearable for years. "Mario and Antonio, however, had to hire of the legal battles, to the sound of warnings, to obtain verification by the ASUR of the conditions for accessing medically assisted suicide, provided for by the sentence of the Council. In the case of Mario, in the end,

the positive opinion of the Marche Region Ethics Committee has been received and some difficulties in interpretation related to the type of substance to be used, the quantity and methods of administration have also been overcome.

Antonio, on the other hand, is still waiting.

But on the basis of these experiences, this time the Asur did not wait for the order of the judges and took action to check.

Source: ansa

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