Belluno, 21 March 2022 – She’s dead Samantha D’Incà. On Saturday morning the doctors “unplugged” the machinery that kept her alive at the end of a path to accompany her death. Samantha, 30 years old from Belluno, had been in an irreversible vegetative state for 14 months, for her her father Giorgio had requested and obtained theauthorization for ‘end of life’ treatment, becoming its support administrator. For a few weeks the young woman had been hospitalized in the “Gaggia Lante” social welfare facility in Belluno.
Samantha went into a coma on December 4, 2020, for the consequences of a serious infection contracted after an operation in the hospital for a fracture of a femur. The nursing home where the young woman died is private, and therefore does not fall within the services of Ulss 1 in the Belluno area.
Di Samatha there was no living will. For this reason, after the doctors had established that the patient could no longer recover, and that however she continued to suffer from her state with extreme pain, his father, Giorgio D’Incà, had started a long battle he judges until he obtains the post of support administrator from the Court of Belluno on 10 November 2021.
Samantha’s condition had deteriorated further in the past few weeks. Death occurred at the end of the end-of-life accompaniment path requested by the family and authorized by the judiciary after the identification of a dedicated medical college.