Wed Jun 22, 2022 – 1:48 pm EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) – On June 17, the first Italian assisted suicide death took place.
Federico Carboni, originally known as “Mario,” died by assisted suicide. All of the precedent-setting assisted suicide cases in Italy have concerned people with disabilities.
As reported by MercoPress:
“Carboni, 44, worked as a truck driver until 2010 when he had an accident that left him quadriplegic, after which he sought to be allowed to die. As per current Italian law, aiding suicide carries a penalty of between 5 to 12 years in prison.”
In September 2019 the Italian Constitutional Court opened the door to assisted suicide. At the time, I was concerned with the language of the decision. An article in the Guardian reported that the court appeared to limit the extent of the decision to people being kept alive on life-support, but the language of the decision was much wider. An article in the Guardian stated:
“The court said that a patient’s condition must be ‘causing physical and psychological suffering that he or she considers intolerable.’”
Since the decision used the phrase “causing physical and psychological suffering that he or she considers intolerable,” and
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