publish some reallocation of Eluana. The facts (144 pages, 12 €), just sent the book to the press by journalists and Pino Lucia Bellaspiga Ciociola for publishing again (co-edited with events). The text reveals the unknown aspects Englaro of the story, events more often censored, ignored, left out or "masked" by most of the Italian press.
So it is (if you like)
If Eluana was terminally ill, his killing would look "less serious", a kind of anticipation of what would have happened soon anyway. Not only that if he were suffering, if his body were destroyed, taking the life seems to be a form of godliness, the end of an aggressive treatment. In fact Eluana not suffer at all in his state - as himself admits Dr. Defanti - but fine newspapers helped to divert this information.
Englaro says un'Eluana stripped and unwatchable, "the face that had dried up like the rest of the body ', that' weighed less than 40 pounds," whose "arms and legs were cramped," with the face all plagued by "those old wounds that are on my ass but also her face" (Corriere della Sera, February 10). Offers such a gruesome picture of his daughter, an amazing picture for those who only days before, in Lecco, had seen a patient who is well organized, strong, healthy and intact skin. And above all that will soon be denied autopsy.
In the room Eluana
A white sheet covers the girl lying flat on its side, the right, so let's shoulders. Or rather, his back to see the head of blacks and shiny hair, cut short, not cropped. That is Eluana therefore, we.
halfway around the bed and we're face to face: hello, Eluana. It is no longer the girl photos, but who could be stupid enough to think none of us is the person who was twenty years ago. But one thing is immediately striking: Eluana has aged little girl really has remained, although in reality, not only in that frozen from the photos ...
see his arms about her and those are turned, firm in flesh as I had ever seen in a number of "vegetative states" I had known, and yet his face is relaxed, full, normal not brutalized by those typical deformed expressions I've met, mouth open, drool dripping, no cheeks, a sort of silent scream of Munch.
Eluana It is early afternoon and is awake, "He opens his eyes at dawn and closes them at night, not sleeping during the day," says Sister Rosa, who remains in the room with us and speaks little.
Under the guise of cure
Eluana is admitted to the nursing home "The Quiet" with an "individual care plan" aimed at "promoting social and functional recovery of the assisted," as well as the 'contrast regressive processes in place ': that is to be treated. (...) A new reading what you find the trust on February 4 to Gazzettino Maurizio Mori (chairman of the bioethics Look non-profit organization, which follows a long time and closely Beppino Englaro) at the time of launch procedures for admission to "The Quiet" is a "waiting list, but the Eluana serious conditions required a sort of emergency procedure. " Dr. Carlo Alberto Defanti, the health certification prior to the nursing home she had written as a history that the patient "had no major illnesses in the past" and had spoken in the diagnosis of "post-traumatic persistent vegetative state," judging in "good health". Had certified that his sleep-wake cycle is "normal" and that "no bedsores. What would be the "serious condition" that legitimated "a sort of emergency procedure"?
The Evaluation Unit of the District of Asl Udine Eluana authorizing the acceptance by stating that a "network of family difficulties in managing care," then she needs "assistance for daily activities within 24 hours."
The girl enters Feb. 3 and is immediately transferred to the team led by Amato De Monte, the Association for Eluana: whose work (provided in a protocol signed the day before) seeks the opposite of recovery and Eluana care of!
autopsy embarrassing
From those pages, it is clear, "even with sores the shadow. " February 11 is the day when they start to move other truth: "According to the experts was in good nutrition," writes the Ansa. "At the time of his death he weighed 53 pounds," reveals the Corriere della Sera: nothing but "less than 40 kilos, then. Eluana weighed 56 or 57 pounds before leaving for Udine. Finally, the more serious news: "It has been estimated the weight of the brain, would be equal to that of a normal person." For the public opinion is a bolt from the blue: the group of doctors had assured fact very different things. She died would not have suffered because "his brain, like that of Terri Schiavo, is reduced by at least half its weight. "
'disease, or non-persons ... "
At the congress of the Italian Society of Neurology, Defanti held in 2007 a report entitled" Ethics of caring for patients with dementia. " We read: "The aging and dementia further raise the question of the value of human life. It is certain that before a life much diminished, for example that of a madman in an advanced stage, the question of whether his life has the same value as that of one of us quite naturally rises ... A special problem of dementia is personal identity (IP) - still supports Defanti -. The concept is controversial. For there is discussion on one point: that is, if after the loss of IP is the person who is in a certain way, "another person", "that" has lost the very characteristics of person (= is a non-person) " . The person with Alzheimer's, explains, no longer has even the ability to recognize himself and his loved ones, and "this change raises disturbing questions, for example, if there is to the person changed so much the same duties as before, let alone affection. "
A design that starts from a distance
was the end of 1995. "I still remember - sticks Mori - a call made to me by Defanti:" Last night they came to me the parents of a young man who, from reports submitted, is in a permanent vegetative state. It was a very difficult situation, but also beautiful and exciting ... I explained to them what you do in the U.S. and Britain and that we could talk about it more carefully and relaxing "." The phone call to
Defanti Mori continues. The neurologist also offers a psychological profile of Englaro: "They are people of great caliber and, I think, very determined, perhaps they can pursue a case such as Nancy Cruzan and Tony Bland (legal battles over euthanasia, the first in the U.S. in 1990, the second in the UK in 1993, nda). We'll see! For now, I assured them my concern: I will study the best case from the clinical point of view and then assess whether the conditions are right to proceed and how the situation will develop. But they are serious people, to be followed. "
Bluffing plug
Almost all newspapers insist on talking about 'plug' and 'pull', but do not tell that to a bed Eluana is normal, as well as his room. No machinery, no monitor. Above all, nothing you can pull off. If you want to die Eluana must act in one way or another, because it has no diseases, is not dependent by a respirator, and beyond the brain injury due to the accident there was nothing in her body that does not work, is a severe disability like many others, not terminally ill. The solution may be injected as in many nations for capital punishment, but the method is barbarous, as well as the possibility of a choking hazard. More 'acceptable', although longer, is to leave it without food or water until it goes off. A system that would have the same result with any patient unable to react, not only the thousands of vegetative states in Italy, but all children born with brain atrophy, the most serious disabilities or Alzheimer's patients, to name a few lives "unworthy." The alleged
will
Hundreds of other parents, who for many years struggling heroically day and night to keep their disabled children at home, you feel wiped out, "If he is rewarded, it means that we have it all wrong ..." . A man from Rome, Claudio Taliento, who looks after his wife six years in a vegetative state, the logic goes: "Now she is potentially suppressible: Find a witness who says," I wanted to live like that "and I can suppress it." We do not enter the merits of the award given to Englaro, but it would be a nice gesture that would give the same honor Unci even one of these fathers. Only one, for all 2,700. On their own, left alone, the newspapers do not speak and the institutions they forget.
The two authors have decided to donate the proceeds of the book to families with children in a vegetative state indicated by the "Friends of Luca non-profit organization, which operates in the" House of Awakenings Luca De Nigris "in Bologna.
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