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It is always difficult to take sides on this debate. The moral aspects involved simply are not in black and white. Italy does not permit euthanasia. Patients have a right to refuse treatment, but there is no law that allows them to give advance directions on their treatment if became incapacitated. So when Eluana Englaro , 38, fell into what her [...]

The court has ruled in favor of Eluana Englaro’s right to die. She has been in a coma for 17 years, since a car crash in 1992. The doctors at the private clinic where she has been recently transferred have already started to withhold food from her feeding tube. Her family has already allowed her to die. Now, her case is the subject of a fierce debate [...]