Davide, the 53-year-old Tuscan
multiple sclerosis (MS) sufferer who was accompanied by
right-to-die activist Mina Welby to Zurich's Dignitas clinic
Wednesday, on Thursday committed assisted suicide, sources said.
Many Italians including the headline-grabbing blind and
tetraplegic disc jockey DJ Fabo have been helped to commit
euthanasia by the activist Luca Coscioni Association, and
especially its treasurer Marco Cappato.
In a video message, Davide said his goodbyes and thanked the
Coscioni Association for its help
The Coscioni Association has helped 268 people to die and has
accompanied three to the Swiss Dignitas clinic, most taken there
by Cappato.
MS is a debilitating nerve-wasting disease. Davide had been
suffering from it for 26 years, since 1993, and had found his
recent years unbearable, sources said.
Welby is the widow of Piergiorgio Welby, an Italian poet,
painter and activist whose three-month-long battle to establish
his right to die in 2006 led to a debate about euthanasia in
Italy, rekindled by DJ Fabo's and other Swiss suicides.
A bill on end-of-life issues including living wills, but not
euthanasia, is before parliament amid criticism from the
Catholic Church and conservative politicians.
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