The euthanasia is the termination deliberate taking of life of a patient in order to prevent further suffering. That is, it is understood as an action or omission which by its nature or by intention causes death, in order to eliminate any pain.
Within the ethical debates in the medical profession, euthanasia has a unique present. After years, a large literature has been published for and against. The discussion revolves around the tension between ethical imperatives to relieve suffering, particularly in terminally ill patients who take a conscious decision to end their lives, and the prohibition against the participation of doctors and other professionals in the control of a lifetime.
One of the classifications is the assisted suicide : means providing intentionally and with knowledge of a person means or process, or both needed to commit suicide, including advice on lethal doses of drugs, prescription these lethal drugs or their delivery. It poses as a desire to extinction imminent death, because life has lost reason of being or has been painfully hopeless. It is noteworthy that in this case is the patient who voluntarily and actively to end her life, hence the concept of suicide.
However this term is very topical lately due to the case of Eluana Englaro, 33, neuro-vegetative state irreversible since he had a car accident in 1992 and whose father was a Milan court authorized stop treatment that is alive. Against the same exponents of the Vatican expressed, including the president of the Episcopal Conference, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, who expressed "concern" about the possibility "to proceed to the loss of a life sentence."
The decision of the Court of Milan was appealed by the Prosecution, while the Italian Senate asked the Constitutional Court to rule on who has the assignment in cases of euthanasia, the legislature or the judiciary, as this issue is not regulated in the country.
The ruling and the case reopened and introduces Eluana legal developments on the possible granting of euthanasia in the country since two years ago, the Supreme Court had denied Englaro family resort. The Supreme Court specified that "currently there is a lack of legislation that provide the information in cases of request for suspension of medical treatment by guardians of the person in a coma no hope of improvement. "
" Unplug the machine, let my daughter die, have a little dignity, "he repeated over the years Beppino Englaro, who has written to all the Italian authorities calling for" termination the agony "for both Eluana and the rest of the people who are in this situation.
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