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Read: 2 min A writer suffering from Parkinson’s disease has become the first to die through medically assisted suicide under a fast-track regional law in Italy, campaigners said Wednesday. Daniele Pieroni died at home on May 17, three months after the new legislation was passed by regional authorities in Tuscany, the pro-euthanasia Luca Coscioni Association said. The Italian Constitutional Court ruled in September 2019 that assisted suicide was …
Born in 1961, he died last May 17 after living with Parkinson's disease for more than 15 years. He had won the prize "Montale non casa"
The association Coscioni: 'Daniele Pieroni, writer, has chosen the end of life with serenity'. Giani: 'Tuscany has filled a void, now a national law' (ANSA)
The palliative care and not the assisted suicide to accompany the serious patients to death: the political debate and civil society after the case of the writer Daniele Pieroni. The story of Daniele Pieroni rekindled the debate on the end of life in Italy. Affected by a serious form of Parkinson's disease that forced him to feed himself with a probe, the writer and poet chose to die in Italy last May 17 at his home. End of life, you can no longe…
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