“In the face of serious illness and suffering, we must first of all face the question with the utmost respect and with our prayer, but I certainly want to underline the principle of the inviolability of human life, from conception to natural death”. Cardinal Paolo Lojudice Thus intervened, with a press release, on the story of Daniele Pieroni, the 64 -year -old writer and poet who died on May 17 in Chiusi (Siena) by administering the lethal drug for which he had asked for authorization from the ASL. It is the first case of assisted suicide after the Region approved, last February, the law that regulates themes and methods of access to the end of life.
This story, writes the president of the Tuscan Episcopal Conference, “leaves us with a profound bitterness and it is the sign of how on the topic of the end of life there is the need for a true comparison at national level, away from the spotlight, that points first of all to restore centrality to palliative care accompanying the patient no longer guariable in the time of suffering and end of life.
Loneliness and pain must find the network to cling to. The right to palliative care is a fundamental right to guarantee to all patients and I am convinced that there is still a lot to do on this ».
The writer, explained the Luca Coscione Association, which made the death known, “chose the path foreseen by the” Constitutional Court’s sentence 242/2019, known as ‘Cappato-Dj Fabo’, which has set the four conditions for medically assisted suicide: being able to self-determine, having an irreversible pathology, having physical or psychological suffering for the disease considered intolerable, depending on supporting treatments. Vitale ». How Pieroni received the green light for the assisted suicide in Italy, another 13 people. Palliative, not only on the physical level, but also of the psychological and relational support for the patient and for the whole family and the general context in which he lives, suffering could be relieved and lead to less dramatic choices.
