(ANSA) - Milan, December 13 - Right-to-die activist Marco
Cappato told a Milan court Wednesday it had been his duty to
help a blind, tetraplegic Italian ex-DJ commit assisted suicide
in Switzerland earlier this year.
Cappato is on trial for helping Fabiano Antoniani aka Dj Fabo
end his life at the Dignitas clinic.
Cappato said people undergoing "terrible suffering with
irreversible illnesses" have the right to "choose how to die,
that is a fundamental human right".
He said "for me it was a duty to help Fabiano, I'm
responsible for helping him (kill himself)".
He stressed that he had not "reinforced" Dj Fabo' intention.
The former DJ, he told the court, told me 'if you don't help
me, I'll find someone who will shoot me'".
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