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For a proper public debate must call things by their name. The controversy surrounding the episode of "Come away with me" when they spoke of Welby and Eluana have arisen because these stories are two steps to introduce euthanasia in Italy. Welby wrote in the letter to the President of the Republic: "My dream is now in my mind more clear and precise than ever: being able to obtain euthanasia." An impossible request, which is prohibited by law. But the question directly identified from the outset the goal. His battle has continued with a request legally legitimate: the renunciation of care. In Italy a person aware - as was Welby - may refuse treatment, even life-saving: Luca Coscioni, for example, died because he refused a tracheotomy, without any controversy posthumously. The "case" arises because Piergiorgio Welby would not only suspend the treatment, but do so in a well-defined: making it clear that a doctor had performed step by step in his will.
has mapped out a path to the limits of the law, the purpose of which euthanasia was clearly evident when he consulted Dr. House, the association Antea per le cure palliative: Casale accettò di sospendergli la ventilazione, con una modalità precisa. Welby sarebbe stato sedato solo per lenire la sofferenza e non per accelerare la morte: dopo la sedazione non si sarebbe neppure più nutrito, e in breve sarebbe arrivato in prossimità della morte.
A quel punto Casale gli avrebbe tolto la ventilazione artificiale, e Welby sarebbe morto, senza mai provare dolore. Ma Welby rifiutò e fece addirittura ricorso contro Casale e l’associazione Antea: voleva essere sedato e subito staccato dal ventilatore. Casale spiegò che si era opposto perchè «qualora avessi agito in tal senso, comunque contro la mia volontà e la mia etica di medico e di uomo, il mio nome, quello di Antea, e quello di tutte le cure palliative sarebbe stato strumentalizzato nella battaglia mediatica e politica condotta in nome dell’eutanasia».
Welby, insomma, voleva un’interruzione di cure che somigliasse il più possibile a un atto eutanasico. Voleva dimostrare che i medici devono eseguire le volontà dei malati, come fossero impiegati o dipendenti qualsiasi, senza mettere in gioco scienza e coscienza. Per questo, anche se la sua richiesta era legalmente legittima (il dottor Riccio che l’ha messa in atto non è stato condannato dalla magistratura), il senso della sua battaglia era tutto eutanasico.
la stessa Mina Welby, leggendo il suo «elenco» nella trasmissione di Fazio, said her husband wanted to "fight for euthanasia with the radicals, which should also participate in other 'must go on after his death Eluana's story was different, because its vegetative state would not allow to give any consent care. The judges at the request of his father, had established that his will had to be rebuilt
And in retrospect, based on evidence or even "lifestyle." Eluana But it was not to terminate medical treatment, but food and artificial hydration, does not "cure" vegetative state, more than they do personal hygiene and mobilization to prevent sores. For
clarify: a person in a vegetative state in which you suspend artificial nutrition and hydration does not die in a vegetative state, but hunger and thirst. Likewise, a person in a vegetative state that is not washed or mobilized, died of infections, due to carelessness, not vegetative state. In short, the food and water, however, administered not cure any disease, but life support, that is keeping people alive, and anyone who is healthy or sick, stop eating or drinking, dies. Ask to withdrawing nutrition means then ask to lead to death. Beyond the differences in the tragic events of Welby and Eluana at stake was the "right to die ', a' death Medically assisted. " Two steps towards euthanasia, done in the name of the most legitimate freedom of treatment and informed consent.
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