(ANSA) - MILAN, NOVEMBER 25 - 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 the assisted suicide.
"Choosing the end of life is a fundamental human right -explained the man's wife-. In these hours if Romanoconfirms his conscious and responsible decision, he will be free to put an end to his suffering".
Man is not yet dependent on life-sustaining treatments.
For Cappato it is a "new civil disobedience".
The man, if he confirms his choice, 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-sustaining treatments', therefore, like the 69-year-old Elena Altamira", 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".
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