An Italian paralysed man who can only
move his eyes on Wednesday asked the Italian State to help him
commit assisted suicide, which is banned in Italy although the
Constittional Court recently found in its favour.
"Dear Italian State, I've been in this condition for 18 years.
Every day my condition becomes ever more unbearable. Help me to
die," 46-year-old Fabio Ridolfi, from Fermignano (Pesaro
Urbino), wrote in a letter.
Ridolfi is paralysed due to the rupture of an artery that has
caused what doctors call 'tetraparesis', a condition in which
all four limbs are weak and which is degenerative.
He communicates with the outside world by moving his eyes to
operate an ocular pointer.
He has written to health authorities in his native Marche region
to ask them to act on the precedent established by the case of
DJ Fabo, a tetraplegic disk jockey who was helped to commit
suicide in a Swiss clinic by the Luca Coscioni right-to-die
association.
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