These reflections on the thorny case of Eluana were published as a letter to the newspaper Messaggero Veneto February 5, 2009
We are not in Iran's Khomeini
I would like to say a few words as a person , a citizen and a retired doctor, on the case of Eluana, now that you start the epilogue.
Frankly, every time I hear or read newspaper articles, inappropriately or written about this sad story, on which everyone feels compelled to make judgments ed'invadere the privacy of that poor family, I can think of the word Disconcert .
right, else puzzled by the lack of respect for the grief of the family that started seventeen years ago will stay with them forever, because the pain of losing a child can not be erased.
I wonder, regardless of the views of all those who spend many words on the subject, what support was given to the family. How many of those who verbally defend life at all costs, the first person to engage in protecting, supporting, helping, respecting the rights of the weakest people and acting in a way that others respect them. Because people who suffer, families suffer, there are many.
are horrified by the inaction of the political class. Politicians continue to prove more and more opportunities to leave the discussion of issues so crucial to all of us, emotional wave of collective ethical conscience, being characterized by thousands of diverse voices, only creates confusion. It would be better than such topics as living wills or others that affect the lives of all the relevant sites were discussed and finally legislate appropriately in respect of those who have faith, but also of those who did not have it.
are horrified by the non-compliance with a decision, right or wrong that we consider, issued by the supreme law of the State and that many invite to disown it. My parents taught me that this is civil disobedience. What explains their children, students, or young people with whom they have to do those people: to follow their religious beliefs or the law of the State? Following ethics objective that seeks the respect of the person, although secular, or only Catholicism? We're talking about freedom and I do not want, on purpose, to be part of that chorus that comes in on the medical problem that affects the family and Eluana Englaro, providing additional personal voice to a problem that has become all too collective.
are horrified by the interference of certain sectors of Catholic fundamentalists who claim to impose their ideas to those who are secular and do not forget that the State is and must remain secular! We are not in a state Khomeini's theocracy like Iran. The Catholic Church is indeed an integral part of our culture and therefore has the sacred right and duty to express their ideas, but can not expect to impose them on everyone. In the Constitution, so often disregarded, there is freedom of worship for all faiths.
are horrified by some Catholics, fundamentalists feel compelled by the Bishop of chopsticks for not taking drastic action, it is even spoken of excommunication, against ten "priests of the border" hot as signatories of the famous document. One has the impression of falling back to the times of the Inquisition, when the Church was more careful not to lose its temporal power and Orthodoxy, which allowed him to maintain it, rather than living according to the dictates of the Gospel.
are horrified, and I will end here, hoping not to appear as Cato the Censor, but as a citizen of the sick, the excess of the spotlight on this critical matter that affects one person, pointing out that, in contrast, has little visibility been given, for example, to twelve hundred Palestinian deaths or all of those, lay or missionaries who are murdered every day in over a hundred ongoing conflicts in the world today.
We are not in Iran's Khomeini
I would like to say a few words as a person , a citizen and a retired doctor, on the case of Eluana, now that you start the epilogue.
Frankly, every time I hear or read newspaper articles, inappropriately or written about this sad story, on which everyone feels compelled to make judgments ed'invadere the privacy of that poor family, I can think of the word Disconcert .
right, else puzzled by the lack of respect for the grief of the family that started seventeen years ago will stay with them forever, because the pain of losing a child can not be erased.
I wonder, regardless of the views of all those who spend many words on the subject, what support was given to the family. How many of those who verbally defend life at all costs, the first person to engage in protecting, supporting, helping, respecting the rights of the weakest people and acting in a way that others respect them. Because people who suffer, families suffer, there are many.
are horrified by the inaction of the political class. Politicians continue to prove more and more opportunities to leave the discussion of issues so crucial to all of us, emotional wave of collective ethical conscience, being characterized by thousands of diverse voices, only creates confusion. It would be better than such topics as living wills or others that affect the lives of all the relevant sites were discussed and finally legislate appropriately in respect of those who have faith, but also of those who did not have it.
are horrified by the non-compliance with a decision, right or wrong that we consider, issued by the supreme law of the State and that many invite to disown it. My parents taught me that this is civil disobedience. What explains their children, students, or young people with whom they have to do those people: to follow their religious beliefs or the law of the State? Following ethics objective that seeks the respect of the person, although secular, or only Catholicism? We're talking about freedom and I do not want, on purpose, to be part of that chorus that comes in on the medical problem that affects the family and Eluana Englaro, providing additional personal voice to a problem that has become all too collective.
are horrified by the interference of certain sectors of Catholic fundamentalists who claim to impose their ideas to those who are secular and do not forget that the State is and must remain secular! We are not in a state Khomeini's theocracy like Iran. The Catholic Church is indeed an integral part of our culture and therefore has the sacred right and duty to express their ideas, but can not expect to impose them on everyone. In the Constitution, so often disregarded, there is freedom of worship for all faiths.
are horrified by some Catholics, fundamentalists feel compelled by the Bishop of chopsticks for not taking drastic action, it is even spoken of excommunication, against ten "priests of the border" hot as signatories of the famous document. One has the impression of falling back to the times of the Inquisition, when the Church was more careful not to lose its temporal power and Orthodoxy, which allowed him to maintain it, rather than living according to the dictates of the Gospel.
are horrified, and I will end here, hoping not to appear as Cato the Censor, but as a citizen of the sick, the excess of the spotlight on this critical matter that affects one person, pointing out that, in contrast, has little visibility been given, for example, to twelve hundred Palestinian deaths or all of those, lay or missionaries who are murdered every day in over a hundred ongoing conflicts in the world today.
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