A 55-year-old Trieste woman committed
assisted suicide by injecting herself with a lethal drug on
November 28 becoming the first Italian to kill herself with the
direct assistance of the national health service on the basis of
a recent ruling by the Constitutional Court, the right-to-die
Luca Coscioni Association said Tuesday.
The unnamed woman had been suffering from secondarily
progressive multiple sclerosis and wanted to end her suffering.
The woman, said the association, is "the first Italian woman to
have completed the procedure envisaged by the Constitutional
Court with the Cappato ruling, with the direct assistance of the
National Health Service."
She is the third person followed by the association to have
access to assisted voluntary death in Italy, the fifth to have
been given the go-ahead, and the first in the northeastern
Friuli region.
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