Milan court authorises euthanasia
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"A Milan appeals court on Wednesday authorised the suspension of the life support system of a young woman who has been in an irreversible coma for the past 16 years.
The ruling, which immediately sparked both applause and criticism, came amid a legislative void in Italy on issues such as living wills and related end-of-life questions.
Englaro's elderly father had been trying to have his daughter's life support system turned of since 1999 in order to free his daughter from ''the inhumane and degrading condition in which she is forced to exist''.
He argued that his daughter, who was injured in a car crash in her Lombardy hometown of Lecco in 1992 when she was 19, said plainly during her life that she would not wish to live in a vegetative state."
Picture: http://flickr.com/photos/brykmantra/76765412/
The ruling, which immediately sparked both applause and criticism, came amid a legislative void in Italy on issues such as living wills and related end-of-life questions.
Englaro's elderly father had been trying to have his daughter's life support system turned of since 1999 in order to free his daughter from ''the inhumane and degrading condition in which she is forced to exist''.
He argued that his daughter, who was injured in a car crash in her Lombardy hometown of Lecco in 1992 when she was 19, said plainly during her life that she would not wish to live in a vegetative state."
Picture: http://flickr.com/photos/brykmantra/76765412/
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