Eluana Englaro - RIP
The only positive thing I can say about this very sad news is that she didn't have to suffer as much. But why did she die so quickly? That doesn't make sense. Carlo Alberto Defanti, her neurologist, made it clear that she was healthy. Was it the pain killers? What? Still, unless some cause unrelated to her being starved to death is found, she was murdered. & her father is at the head of the list of those to blame. Let us pray that the Italiano Parliament will still pass whatever measures are needed to prevent this from happenning again. ELUANA ENGLARO
25 November 1970 - 9 February 2009
Eternal Rest grant unto her O Lord!
& let perpetual light shine upon her!
Here are the LifeSite News & LifeNews articles in their entirety. (LifeNews has some other articles that I will use for a followup post.)
By Matthew Cullinan Hofman
ROME, February 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Eluana Englaro, Italy's "Terri Schiavo," has died only four days after doctors began a "gradual" reduction in her food and water intake with the intent to cause her death.
The announcement was made by Italy's Health Minister on the floor of the Italian Senate, which was debating a bill that would have saved Englaro's life.
Although no cause of death has been announced, earlier news reports indicated that Englaro's intake of nutrients was being replaced with a heavy dose of sedatives. Palliative medication in high doses can cause a patient to die prematurely.
The news follows public statements by Englaro's physician that she has enjoyed almost perfect physical health during the 16 years following her car accident in 1992, which left her bedridden and in a minimal state of consciousness. She was 38 years old.
Although euthanasia is illegal in Italy and Englaro's body functions were not dependent on machines, her father received a decision from Italy's final appeals court in 2008 allowing him to remove hydration and nutrition in order to kill her. The ruling was based on the notion that food and water constitute “medical treatment,” which can be withheld at the patient's discretion.
Englaro's father claims that his daughter would not have wanted to live as a "vegetable."
The decision to allow Englaro's dehydration death was met with protests throughout Italy during the weekend, and over the past few weeks. The Italian government under Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attempted to pass emergency legislation through the Italian Parliament to save Englaro's life after an earlier attempt was blocked by the country's president, a former communist. However, the legislation was still in process when Englaro's death was announced.
Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schindler, commented to LifeSiteNews.com about Eluana’s death saying, "I’m very sad to hear about Eluana. Our family grieves for her." He added that he was "surprised at how quickly she has passed away."
Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition International denounced Englaro's killing and expressed puzzlement at her quick death.
"To intentionally dehydrate a person to death dehumanizes them because it denies them the basic care due to a human person. We turn them into an object," he told LifeSiteNews. "Everybody deserves basic care, which includes food, fluid, and warmth as long as it is necessary to sustain life. This is not extraordinary treatment."
"We ask the question, how did she actually die? She wouldn’t have died in just a few days of dehydration," he added.
ROME, February 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Eluana Englaro, Italy's "Terri Schiavo," has died only four days after doctors began a "gradual" reduction in her food and water intake with the intent to cause her death.
The announcement was made by Italy's Health Minister on the floor of the Italian Senate, which was debating a bill that would have saved Englaro's life.
Although no cause of death has been announced, earlier news reports indicated that Englaro's intake of nutrients was being replaced with a heavy dose of sedatives. Palliative medication in high doses can cause a patient to die prematurely.
The news follows public statements by Englaro's physician that she has enjoyed almost perfect physical health during the 16 years following her car accident in 1992, which left her bedridden and in a minimal state of consciousness. She was 38 years old.
Although euthanasia is illegal in Italy and Englaro's body functions were not dependent on machines, her father received a decision from Italy's final appeals court in 2008 allowing him to remove hydration and nutrition in order to kill her. The ruling was based on the notion that food and water constitute “medical treatment,” which can be withheld at the patient's discretion.
Englaro's father claims that his daughter would not have wanted to live as a "vegetable."
The decision to allow Englaro's dehydration death was met with protests throughout Italy during the weekend, and over the past few weeks. The Italian government under Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attempted to pass emergency legislation through the Italian Parliament to save Englaro's life after an earlier attempt was blocked by the country's president, a former communist. However, the legislation was still in process when Englaro's death was announced.
Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schindler, commented to LifeSiteNews.com about Eluana’s death saying, "I’m very sad to hear about Eluana. Our family grieves for her." He added that he was "surprised at how quickly she has passed away."
Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition International denounced Englaro's killing and expressed puzzlement at her quick death.
"To intentionally dehydrate a person to death dehumanizes them because it denies them the basic care due to a human person. We turn them into an object," he told LifeSiteNews. "Everybody deserves basic care, which includes food, fluid, and warmth as long as it is necessary to sustain life. This is not extraordinary treatment."
"We ask the question, how did she actually die? She wouldn’t have died in just a few days of dehydration," he added.
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by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 9, 2009
Rome, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- After an international debate over whether she should be subjected to a painful starvation and dehydration death, Eluana Englaro has died. The disabled woman had been in a minimally conscious state since 1992, when she was involved in an automobile accident.
Englaro's father Beppino had won a court order to kill his daughter after fighting for a decade to do so.Officials at the clinic that is supposed to be caring for Eluana started the process of starving her to death on Friday and gradually reduced the amount of food and water she received over the weekend.
The woman was in healthy condition, according to her neurologist, Carlo Alberto Defanti.
“She has never had any diseases and has no need for antibiotics," Defanti admitted to an Italian newspaper. "[Englaro] does not have any damaged or injured internal organs. The tests performed at the hospital in Lecco, before her departure [to the center where she will be killed] were perfect.”
Her death came at a time when the Italian Parliament was debating whether or not to approve an emergency measure to save her life. Premier Silvio Berlusconi and members of the cabinet signed off on it but President Giorgio Napolitano vetoed it saying it went against the court ruling.
Italian health minister Maurizio Sacconi made the announcement to members of the chamber.
Leading government officials and the Catholic Church strongly opposed forcing a euthanasia death upon Englaro and said she had a right to live.The Vatican's "health minister" Javier Lozano Barragan told the ANSA news agency that Englaro will now be in a better place and expressed his sadness that Englaro was forced to live without food and water for days.
"May the Lord welcome her and forgive those who led her there (to her death)," he said.
Englaro had been transferred to a new medical clinic in Udine where staff began reducing the amount of food and water given to her through her feeding tube. Today was supposed to be the first day where Englaro would be deprived fully of any nutrition.
Defanti has said in the interview he expected Englaro to live as long as two weeks -- the same amount of time as the 13 days Terri Schiavo lived after her former husband subjected her to a painful starvation and dehydration death in March 2005.
Terri Schiavo's father had written to Beppino asking him to reconsider his decision to kill his daughter."God gave you and I the responsibility to instill morals in our children and to keep them out of harm's way. To starve and dehydrate your daughter is far from God’s wishes." he said.
Englaro's father Beppino had won a court order to kill his daughter after fighting for a decade to do so.Officials at the clinic that is supposed to be caring for Eluana started the process of starving her to death on Friday and gradually reduced the amount of food and water she received over the weekend.
The woman was in healthy condition, according to her neurologist, Carlo Alberto Defanti.
“She has never had any diseases and has no need for antibiotics," Defanti admitted to an Italian newspaper. "[Englaro] does not have any damaged or injured internal organs. The tests performed at the hospital in Lecco, before her departure [to the center where she will be killed] were perfect.”
Her death came at a time when the Italian Parliament was debating whether or not to approve an emergency measure to save her life. Premier Silvio Berlusconi and members of the cabinet signed off on it but President Giorgio Napolitano vetoed it saying it went against the court ruling.
Italian health minister Maurizio Sacconi made the announcement to members of the chamber.
Leading government officials and the Catholic Church strongly opposed forcing a euthanasia death upon Englaro and said she had a right to live.The Vatican's "health minister" Javier Lozano Barragan told the ANSA news agency that Englaro will now be in a better place and expressed his sadness that Englaro was forced to live without food and water for days.
"May the Lord welcome her and forgive those who led her there (to her death)," he said.
Englaro had been transferred to a new medical clinic in Udine where staff began reducing the amount of food and water given to her through her feeding tube. Today was supposed to be the first day where Englaro would be deprived fully of any nutrition.
Defanti has said in the interview he expected Englaro to live as long as two weeks -- the same amount of time as the 13 days Terri Schiavo lived after her former husband subjected her to a painful starvation and dehydration death in March 2005.
Terri Schiavo's father had written to Beppino asking him to reconsider his decision to kill his daughter."God gave you and I the responsibility to instill morals in our children and to keep them out of harm's way. To starve and dehydrate your daughter is far from God’s wishes." he said.
posted by Al @ 11:10 PM
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