Massimiliano, the 44-year-old Tuscan who had been ill with multiple sclerosis for 6 years, died with assisted suicide in a clinic in Switzerland, who on Monday launched an appeal to "be helped to die at my home", in Italy.
The news was given by the Luca Coscioni association to which the man, no longer autonomous, had turned
.
Massimiliano, explains the association, was accompanied to the Swiss country "by Felicetta Maltese, 71, a member of the Luca Coscioni association and activist of the Legal Euthanasia campaign and by Chiara Lalli, journalist and bioethicist".
Now both are going to report themselves to the police in Florence.
"I'm almost completely paralyzed and I also find it hard to speak. For a couple of years since I can't take it anymore" I started "to read up on the internet about painless suicide methods", and "I finally reached my dream.
Too bad I didn't I reached it in Italy, but I have to go abroad
": "Why can't I do it here in Italy? At my house, even in a hospital, with relatives, friends" nearby.
"No, I have to go to Switzerland. This doesn't seem logical to me": "I'm forced to go away, to get away".
So in his last video message from him Massimiliano, who died in Switzerland with assisted suicide.
Massimiliano's appeal: 'I have multiple sclerosis. Help me die in my home'
