The Court of Appeal of Milan must Life Support 36-year-old Italian terminate in a coma for the last 16 years. With the claim by the father of euthanasia women. Eloi Englaro (Eluana Englaro) was born in 1972, was in a vegetative state as a result of a car accident on 18 January 1992. During all this time, she received food and water artificially. To support her father, Beppino Englaro (Beppino Englaro) to finish his first application life her daughter in 1999. Several times he was rejected, but further by filing appeal won, finally the case. Crucial facts of the case, the medical report of the irreversibility of the coma and evidence Eloi father and friends. Before the accident, she explained her preference to die rather than to live without awareness The decision to stop life support was made possible by the ambiguity of the Italian law which prohibits euthanasia on the one hand, on the other - gives the patient the right to refuse treatment. The debate on the ethics of euthanasia in Italy influence of the Catholic church complicated. In particular, she denied a funeral Mass of the poet and writer Piergiorgio Welby (Piergiorgio Welby), who suffered from muscular dystrophy and disconnected from the ventilator in 2006.
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