22 December 2006

Piergiorgio Welby - RIP

Piergiorgio Welby, an Italian poet and fierce advocate of the right to die, died yesterday after his doctor switched off his respirator in apparent defiance of a court decision last weekend which said that his respirator could be switched off but that his doctors still had an obligation to resuscitate him.

In a country that is home to the Vatican we can expect further developments.

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