Right to die ...... After years of silence after the death of Welby, back on the front page of the case Eluana. This is his story and the story of a family that a daughter has only the body .....
"The long sleep of Eluana
was a January morning than fifteen years ago when a girl was hospitalized in Lecco in a deep coma for a serious head injury in a road accident reported. The head trauma was compounded by the fracture of second vertebra Cervical that the conviction almost certainly to total paralysis. The girl is called Eluana that morning and still "asleep". A recall those moments in a vibrato is the father of the girl, Beppino Englaro, during a conference in Milan and dedicated to the case. The watchword of the first 48 hours is the classic "wait and see." The doctors are trying to rip it to death, was intubated and the drugs are administered early. Eluana but does not react and continues to grow. Resigned in April 1992, he was taken to a different department of the hospital of Lecco, where it is subjected to a series of stimuli, hoping the revival, which does not occur. The hope is the last to die, they say many doctors. But is that really so? The case
Beppino Englaro One thing we would like to emphasize. Eluana was a very strong and determined girl, and though very young, had already lived the experience of a friend forced into a vegetative state by an accident. His position was no occasion of nuances, as always, "if something were to happen I would not want to be kept alive," he said. Yet no one takes account of his will and despite her father in the meantime has become the legal guardian are unable to obtain the withdrawal of artificial feeding. And all in the name of the fact that Eluana according to the current law can not be defined as dead, instead of the entire brain, the accident has damaged the cortex, the part where thoughts are processed, awareness, feelings and relationships. The eyes of the young woman, now 35, tells the time, as doctor, open and close the rhythm of day and night, but do not see. The lips are shaken by a tremor continued, the arts thesis in a spasm and feet in equinus. A cannula of the nose brings the food to the stomach. Every morning the nurses washed her face and body with a sponge. An enema to clear the bowel. Every two hours the turn in bed. Once a day they put it on a chair with reclining back, being careful not to fall forward. Then back to bed. Calling this than aggressive treatment? "
speech on aggressive treatment and euthanasia debate in our country is always a certain fear from our politicians. Why should this be so? As for me being a plant or .. more precisely be in permanent vegetative state, does not mean to be alive, for me is to be useless, be dead. To live is to speak, run, walk, feel, laugh, look, love means being able to stand up ...... out of bed every day without having to be attached to a machine. Even an accident or illness can make you lose the desire to live ... so where is it written that we must live strength? Who decides? A court, the Church or some other institution?
very little would be enough .... enough to have the right to refuse to sign a document care in the event of a serious condition ....
Certainly the subject is serious and delicate and you can not 'deal in a superficial way ... but only if you start discussing ......
If there is freedom to live ... because there can be no freedom to die?
