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Cappato in Switzerland, accompanies a patient for assisted suicide

2022-11-25T11:31:52.296Z


The treasurer of the association Luca Coscioni will give his support to a man suffering from atypical parkinsonism (ANSA)


Marco Cappato, treasurer of the Luca Coscioni Association, is in Switzerland to follow up on the "request for help" received from a man suffering from atypical Parkinsonism, who asked to be accompanied to the Swiss country to legally access assisted suicide.

"Choosing the end of life is a fundamental human right - explained the man's wife - In these hours if my husband confirms his conscious and responsible decision, he will be free to put an end to his suffering".

The man is not yet dependent on life-sustaining treatments.

If he will confirm his choice of him, he should die today in the Swiss clinic.

"I'm back in Switzerland to assert what should be a fundamental right", explained Cappato, protagonist in recent years of many battles on the issue of dignity at the end of life.

It is a "new civil disobedience", he clarifies, "since the accompanied person is not 'kept alive by life support treatments', therefore, like the 69-year-old


Elena Altamira from Veneto", terminally ill with cancer who died in Switzerland last summer with assisted suicide, "does not fall within the cases provided for by the sentence 242/2019 of the Constitutional Court on the Cappato-Dj Fabo case for access to assisted suicide in Italy".

"My husband Romano is suffering from a serious neurodegenerative disease, a very aggressive form of Parkinson's which has completely paralyzed his limbs and which


has produced very severe dysphagia which will soon lead him to forced feeding", explains his wife in a video .

"When at the beginning of July Romano expressed his desire to end this long suffering in a very responsible and conscious way - the woman clarified - we turned to the Luca Coscioni Association for information and we also asked Marco Cappato for help. All this to avoid - he adds - legal problems given that in our country there is no clear legislative framework on the choice of end of life which is a fundamental human right".

Now after a long "very tiring" journey, the woman explains, "for Romano, we have arrived in Switzerland and are waiting for the doctor's visit".

If Romano "confirms his conscious and responsible decision already expressed in front of the doctor, she will be free to put an end to his suffering from tomorrow (today, ed.).

Romano should die today.

Source: ansa

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