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Because I have the right to choose my death

ALTHOUGH 'the problem I am very upset, and perhaps for this reason, I have tried in recent months not to pronounce any opinion or opinion on the case Englaro, and sensible for many reasons, but primarily because I did not want to participate in the dog who was using for ideological reasons, by both sides, the story of a hapless girl and her family.

When the President of the Council took the case to excuse groped one of his repeated attacks on the Constitution now, I spoke with Liberty and Justice, in the square, and I joined calls for vigilance. But in the few interviews that I could not avoid've always said that the few hundred people who were with me in front of Palace of Justice in Milan were not there to manifest Englaro case, because I was willing to bet that if he made the count would be seen that half the thought in one way and half another, but to protest against the attack on the president, Bonapartist attack (thank Ezio Mauro recalled for this year) on which everyone agreed.

Now, looking through the newspapers, I realize how difficult it is to divide these two problems as much subtlety and political science, law, and (let) you want to understand how moral the two problems are different. But what can you expect from those who, as they did centuries ago with Terence and the bears, he preferred the Big Brother discussion of these cases?
So I found myself among those who cited the case Englaro had clear ideas and decided. I rise to say that I had, otherwise I would have expressed. Only, now that she is dead, maybe we can talk about these issues without fear of looting to a body in pain.

indeed not going to talk about the death of Eluana. I rather talk about my death, and accept that in this case I have any rights outside.

Having to talk about my death, and not that of others, I can not mention certain aspects of my life, including the fact that a few years ago I wrote a novel called The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, where the protagonist, after an initial cerebral accident for which he lost his memory, again fell into a coma.

writing I do not know if I wanted to say something scientifically valid or looking for just a narrative pretext, but the fact is that I spent more than a hundred pages to make my character monologue into a coma by now (not then I figured if reduced plant accused of brain death or coma may be reversible - a sign that I had no precise scientific concerns).

In any case, the character, in that state will call a "suspended life", he thought, memories, desires, was moved. He knew that her friends thought he was probably reduced the state of a turnip, or at most a sleeping dog, but he realizes that doctors know very little about what happens in our mental functioning, and perhaps where they see a flat encephalogram we still think, you know, with the kidneys, her heart, her kidneys, pancreas with ...

This was my literary fiction (to appease those who expect exceptional all I will say that my character eventually sank in the dark) but I must say that if I had thought it was because I believed a little. I'm not sure where the scientific instruments of today see only a flat earth, and an absence of soul, there is no thought at all - and I mean peaceful materialism, not because I believe that a soul survives the death of our cells, but because I would not rule out that - and finally death a few cells - and others do not survive to take control of the situation, not witnessing an extraordinary plasticity of the brain (this is now the Everybody knows), but our body.

Well, since I suspect that when you are healthy you think even with the big toe, then why not when the brain shows no sign of life?

not make a statement about a scientific conference, but somehow I believe it. Given that there are people who believe in the red horn let me believe this.

Now what I wish, though if I were in a situation like that?

To seek with his lantern every chance I really think that they are reduced to three. First possibility to survive as a turnip, without conscience, without being able to say "I", reacting to a maximum of some modification of atmospheric moisture, as if I were a column of mercury. In fact, these conditions would not be a "me", but just a stone and I do not see why I should worry about me.

The second possibility is that in that state all relive their past, go back to childhood, you have visions come true and those who had been living in our desires, In short we are living a kind of heavenly dream. It's a little what happens to the character of my novel, but then unfortunately he falls into darkness.

The third hypothesis is the most worrying is that in that life was suspended one wonders what will they think of us and our loved ones, will live again with my heart in my throat the last moments of consciousness, the theme for the ravine future that awaits us, or even one consumption as did my mother in the last ten years that has survived my father telling us children whenever he could, as was the horrible night when my father had been seized by heart attack, and if it was not his fault that he had prepared a dinner may be too heavy. This would hell - and I almost accepted with relief the death of my mother because I knew it was coming out of this hell.

Now let's blow accounts of the Pascal. Only one of three options is pleasant, the other two are negative. In terms of roulette (and large numbers, like seventeen years of suspended life) has already lost. But the problem is not that. I am ready to declare that in the case of suspended life in the accident incurs, I would not extending care (even if I lose a few seconds or millennia of paradise) to avoid tension, despair, false hopes, and trauma (let) unsustainable costs to my family. But who am I to destroy the life of one, two, three or more people for the remote possibility of having a few moments or a few years of virtual paradise?

I have the right to choose my death for the sake of others. As it happens, is what I always taught the moral, and not just secular, but also of religion, that's what I was taught as a child, that Pietro Micca was right to give guns to save all the people of Turin that Salvo D'Acquisto was right to accuse of a crime not committed, to reach out to the shooting, to save a whole country, that is a hero who cut out her tongue and accept certain death not to betray his companions and sent to death , who is holy accept the inevitable leprosy to kiss the wounds of the leper.
And after you have taught me all that I do not want to subscribe to the suspension of a suspended life for the sake of the people I love? But where is it moral - and the heroic, and what you taught me, that characterizes the holiness?

why, troubled to express the slightest idea about the death of Eluana (no, dammit, my business, but the parents who loved any more than he loved Berlusconi, who has sinister ghosts on her period) I do not hesitate to speak my mind about my death. And the love that death can embody. "Praised s' my Lord, through Sister Death, - from whom no living man 'can escape: - Woe to those ke die in mortal sin, - Blessed are those who'll achieve them Thy holy will, - ka death secunda no' l Farra 'evil'.

of UMBERTO ECO from the Republic of 12 February 2009

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lawmaking death forgetting life

lawmaking death Forget your comment The Government and the Church dictate norms and behaviors rather than promoting the rights and protections . So you end up launching more monstrous and unenforceable. The natural and the human are used in the name of the supremacy of the Vatican and contingent political majority for the time being. The which legislates and forget the existence of death. How to migrants and refugees, whose right to health is compromised by the new security bill
as it should be now the debate will start again by the Parliamentary Commission of Health of the Senate on living wills. However, it is likely more overpowering than the needs and wishes of people. Effectively, Claudio Magris has reminded us that "The quality of life can be assessed only by the person concerned, the only person authorized to order their own lives and their own death."
E 'should therefore be re-read the full Article. 32 of the Constitution, consists of two paragraphs. The first states that "The Republic health as a fundamental right of individual and collective interest, and guarantees free medical care to the indigent. "No less significant is the second, in the light of recent events:" No one can be forced to a particular health treatment under the provisions of law. The law may in no case violate the limits imposed by respect for the human person ".
principles are based on personal freedom and responsibility of medical and science assets that the state makes available to its citizens to ensure their right to health.
And here lies the great value of secularism and of the inalienable distinction between faith and law. The government and the center-right have embraced with an air of decisions, the position of the Vatican and the Catholic hierarchy, replacing a single blow to the poor will Eluana and his family, to the attention of doctors called to her bedside, the judgments of the judiciary to the contours of the constitutional Head of State.
Yesterday on assisted procreation, today on living wills, and Church Government, storm into people's lives by imposing regulations, establishing obligations, prescribing behavior, instead of helping ensure the rights and protections. With the result that, under the principle that the availability of life belongs to God's will rather than to individuals, the State to determine how the world is and how you leave this earth.
So you end up doing much more monstrous as being unworkable and unenforceable (flights of hope for the English clinics where infertile couples trying to have children has increased by 300% after the approval of Law 40). Or, on the one hand condemning the aggressive treatment of certain abuses and excesses in technology and then you impose them by decree law.
The natural and the human are used, to be vilified in the name of the supremacy of the quota, whether the Church, more and more prone to theocratic terms, that the political majority pro tempore. Which legislates the death and forget about life.
As one linked to the health of migrants, to be reported to the police if they dare to use our health care system. The Church, like any good doctor and nurse any good, denounced the devastating effects of this rule. And some regions (Puglia, Tuscany, Lazio) have already decided not to apply, while center-right government, and seem intent on not to take any account of the findings of ethics-advanced health, faced with such inhumanity from those who are moved by the knowledge that the epidemic hidden from the law, would eventually spill over into the health of the entire population. The revolt of many doctors, Catholics and others, shows how you can be fighting against the side of life the ideological fury of certain legislation.
The fundamentalist crusades based on the affirmation of Christian values \u200b\u200bseem to prevail over freedom of conscience (and treatment) of doctors and citizens. Against any determination of the people, the government has chosen the way that most earthquake awareness and breaks down the barriers of party: pain. Transforming a complex and heartbreaking in yet another clash between where life ends and where early death.

of Giovanni Berlinguer

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Stefano Rodota, "Government relapsed, further violations of constitutional legality"

Minister Sacconi formal government action that threatens to stop the hands of doctors should stop feeding artificial life that keeps Eluana, Cardinal Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for health professionals, seeking to stop "the murderous hand." While the story of the young man in a vegetative state for 17 years seems to be coming to an end, somebody is not satisfied in every way and try to ignore the judgments of the judiciary who have said yes to the will expressed by parents and by the same Eluana girl. We asked Stefano Rodota, legally authoritative, attentive to issues of secularism and the rights of the individual, an opinion on this scenario. 'It is not in place today - says former guarantor of protection of personal data - a very serious and dangerous conflict on the issue of legality and respect for human rights. These invocations, these attempts to prevent it from giving effect to a res judicata does not come from individuals who appeal to moral criteria. In this sense, let alone agree on the content and even less on the words of Cardinal Barragan. " But at least
does not have an institutional role. But when such statements and announcements of behaviors are to be invested by political leaders particularly important role as a minister here opens a conflict. "

That certainly is not new, right Professor?
Yes, this is an open conflict for a long time. The earlier acts, declared absolutely illegal, they are explained Three attempts to block roads through more or less correct from the legal point of view the implementation of the decision: the first attempt, the Parliament which has just raised a conflict between the judiciary and Parliament itself, saying that it was not for the courts to give guidance on the matter. The Constitutional Court quickly dismissed this as an attitude is not correct and has assessed that the judiciary has been put forward as part of its powers and its powers.
second attempt, Formigoni, governor of Lombardy, which says "not in my house." This act was challenged before the Administrative Court of Lombardy, which annulled the decision of the president. Third, the so-called act of address Sacconi, who as time goes on, more has been studied by those who have legal knowledge of grammar, plus a measure has proved legally impossible. So much so that the governor of the Friuli Venezia Giulia, which we know is a region administered by the center-right did not consider it binding qull'atto invitation. So we are faced with a conflict that is repeated again after that in all institutions of the majority of these efforts the Government or the Government as such were considered to be absolutely illegal.

A severe tear institutional ...
is a very serious breach of constitutional legality in the game because they are simultaneously state powers and individual rights and people's fundamental. This assessment as a whole. So I find it strange not to use other words, the demand for Buttiglione to arrange an immediate meeting of the Council of Ministers has approved a law that would clearly have the objective to block the implementation of a sentence. I've seen all the colors in this country but to say that a law can prevent implementation of a sentence may have to violate the logic of constitutional politics.

Professor, we also face a serious violation of the personal sphere?
in this case I would not use the word privacy. Here is the order of compliance dignity of persons. A principle that must guide us in every moment. Here, the dignity of dying can not be clearly seen something on which we will doggedly with a certain violence. From this point of view at other times it seemed that there is an appalling lack of Christian charity. Today we must say the laity, although that expression of Christian charity, continues to please me, that the principle of dignity, which is one of the founding principles of a democratic state, is violently assaulted. And do not say is that the dignity of those who must see their own survival but made compulsory for those who must be respected in its decisions and in its being a person.

When tackling these issues we always talk about lack of legislation. But it is not likely, given the scenario offered by the Parliament, to "fill" the gap worsening the situation? First
not emphasize the profile "legal vacuum". There is so much so in fact this gap that the courts, with some decisions, especially with the pivotal decision of this affair, that of the Supreme Court in October 2007, were able to reconstruct with great rigor the Italian legal system by making in evidence all the elements that already, without a law, lets get to the conclusion that has emerged, namely the right to refuse treatment and to die with dignity. So I use with caution, and in fact I tend not to accept the argument of the legal vacuum because it means that someone has filled more or less illegal. What did the judges is absolutely legitimate, consistent with the principles of our system and our Constitution, because they read a series of standards, as we have been taught by the Constitutional Court, according to a constitutionally. So today there is a vacuum. There may be operational aspects that need a more specific discipline. For example, the shape of the living will or the ability to appoint a trustee to an administrator of support to ensure that there are still doubts. But my fear is that you want to use the argument "we must make a law" on the living will or the protection of life until its end "natural" for a proper restoration and to step back from what already it is possible for Italian citizens, or to refuse treatment in various forms.

of Vittorio Bonanni Liberation from February 4, 2009

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Margherita Hack: "This center is formed by a bunch of arrogant and ignorant" How to fight

not only speak as a scientist, he speaks as a citizen of a country that struggles to recognize. It does not make allowances, Margherita Hack.

not turn off the lights on Eluana, are announced marches on Udine. What do you think?
"First let me say that I greatly appreciate the attitude of the President Renzo Tondo from Friuli, a man of the PDL, which has assumed a position of great respect and secular."

Have you seen the shock video, people screaming at the ambulance Eluana: "I want to kill '?
"It's a shame. If it were not for the development of medical Eluana would have died 17 years ago, this is the truth. "

Someone accused of killing doctors who will suspend the artificial treatments. The Church speaks of euthanasia.
"Here we are in front of the defense of life, we are facing positions ideological. Anybody want to win their ideas without considering Eluana. Eluana is already dead, in fact. It is a body kept alive by machines and unable to suffer or to understand what is happening around. It's like he was under anesthesia for 17 years. "

Perhaps the Catholic Church and the fear that a precedent is created by the application of this sentence, in view of the law on living wills?
"But a law on living wills is essential and must protect the patient's will."

That's the point. Some claim that artificial nutrition and hydration not care Medical and then no one can suspend them.
"It would impose an unnatural thing: we're talking about medical treatment. Here there is no Christian feeling towards those who suffer, there is only the will to impose their point of view. If you want to do such a law is better than leaving it be, would take away rights to people about their lives and their bodies. It's inexcusable. "

front of the case of Eluana how we should move?
"With the greatest respect. The interference of the Church and the political weakness of the two things are really unbearable. The policy is only one thing do: a law for the will, which then must be performed according to the will of those who signed. "

you think there was another way of telling the Englaro case?
"I think so far everything has moved with great irrationality, great desire to override the will of individuals. It is uncivilized. "

In the center there are those who claimed an emergency decree to block everything.
"This center is formed by a bunch of arrogant and ignorant politicians that claim to block a decision of the judiciary. But the Democratic Party should be more courageous. "

Mary Zegarelli by the Unity of the February 4, 2009