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the tenth Hall, the first sign of Mina Welby. No Alemanno
ROME - "If it happens to me, if I end up a prisoner of my own body, at the mercy of doctors and nurses who decide when and how to move, wash, feed me, I believe that mad. Cruelty non è staccare la spina: è questa la vera crudeltà. Bisogna che ci pensino bene in Parlamento. E sa perché? Perché potrebbe capitare a chiunque. Anche a loro». Paola Della Manna è la seconda persona che ieri ha firmato e lasciato il suo testamento biologico nella sede del Municipio X, a Roma.
La prima a firmare è stata Mina Welby. Firma simbolica, la sua: Mina, una signora minuta, con i capelli bianchi e l´aria dolce di chi ha molto sofferto e molto sa, era moglie di quel Piergiorgio Welby che per 40 anni lottò con la distrofia muscolare che alla fine lo costrinse all´immobilità totale, attaccato a una macchina per sopravvivere. Welby condusse una durissima e inascoltata battaglia affinché la ability to choose how to live and die in situations where irreversible, to choose euthanasia in short, became law.
"Now the Romans belong to any municipality - said yesterday the President of the Municipality X, Sandro Medici, - here we can store your living will. It can make all the citizens because the procedure is well known that replacement of the entire perimeter of the municipal value that, as for the identity card. " At the service, active for hours every Wednesday from 15 to 17, can be accessed by appointment. You must fill in two forms: the actual text, in which a person is delegated to the knowledge doctors to the will of the patient. And a statement of the deposit, which correspond to a sequence number recorded in the register.
Signing Mina Welby "Some claim that the initiative has not legal value - Doctors said - but it does not. We are in a situation vacatio legis: for this is the main coordinator of Article 32 of the Constitution. At least until Parliament will vote on a bill to ban the living will. " Article 32 of the Constitution says: "Nobody can be forced to a specific medical treatment unless required by law. The law can in no case violate the limits imposed by respect for the human person "," We have these beautiful directives - says Mina Welby - totally unheard. A unique situation in Europe, where is the patient who decides and not doctors or relatives. "
In the afternoon then get a note from the mayor Gianni Alemanno. "This initiative has a clear manifesto of ideological flavor," he says. Ready replication Doctors: "Our record is not an ideological manifesto. But a real attempt to welcome and listen to the needs of our citizens." (April 9 2009)
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