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Italy’s First Assisted Suicide Exposes Years of Political Inaction

Summary by EURACTIV
Tuscany has carried out Italy’s first assisted suicide, defying a national legal vacuum as Meloni’s government pushes a bill that sidesteps regulation of the right to die.

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The procedure was chosen by writer Daniele Pieroni, who suffered from advanced Parkinson's disease.

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The one approved by Tuscany, which last month was challenged by the government of Giorgia Meloni

·Italy
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Poet and essayist, he was born in 1961 and lived in Chiusi. He wrote: "Death does not frighten the soul because it does not disunite it from the long breath of the world."

·Rome, Italy
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Suicide medically assisted, first case in Tuscany after the approval in February of the regional law on times and modalities, drawn up starting from pdl Liberi immediately ...

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Daniele Pieroni, a 60-year-old writer, has had Parkinson's disease since 2008

·Turin, Italy
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ANSA broke the news in Italy on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.
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