After obtaining the favorable opinion of the Ethics Committee on the presence of the four requirements for access to assisted suicide, Mario, 43, a quadriplegic patient from the Marche region, once again warned Asur (Azienda Sanitaria Unica Regionale) Marche, because it defaulted on the due tests on the lethal drug, according to the Luca Coscioni Association. This is, in fact, the last step to be made, the association explained “before being able to legally access medically assisted death”, according to the procedure established by the Cappato / Antoniani ruling of the Constitutional Court.
“Yes to assisted suicide but the court decides”. And it’s a fight over the drug
by our correspondent Maria Novella De Luca
Mario had asked the Marche hospital for over a year to check his health conditions in order to legally access a lethal drug in Italy to put an end to his suffering, obtaining the green light from the Ethics Committee. After the sentence of the Constitutional Court 242 of 2019 on the case of Dj Fabo, the Coscioni Association fought so that, in compliance with the conditions indicated by the Council, assisted suicide, starting with the case of Mario, 43 years old truck driver from Pesaro, immobilized to bed after a road accident, could also be carried out in Italy. That is, it could be considered non-punishable if those conditions including the irreversibility of the disease, the unsustainability of pain and of course the clear will of the patient, had been evident.
Mario: “The doctors have understood that I suffer too much to live. We are making history”.
by our correspondent Maria Novella De Luca
And so now Mario, who would like to have access to assisted suicide, has once again warned the Marche health company to do “as required by the court of Ancona in a very short time the necessary checks on the modality, method and drug suitable for guaranteeing death. as quick, painless and dignified as possible “, explains the Coscioni Association, adding that the new warning arrives” following the opinion of the Ethics Committee in recent days, which had confirmed the existence of the four requirements set by the court, but at the same time not he had been able to comment on the method, the drug and the methods of execution, in the absence of the verification report carried out by the doctors appointed by the regional health company of the brands “.
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For the association, these are “unjustified and obstructive delays with respect to Mario’s right to verify all the conditions necessary for access to medically assisted voluntary death”. Hence the decision of the further formal notice “to put Asur Marche in default so that it can proceed with the verification of the suitable drug and the relative methods of execution”.