In Liguria a new assisted suicide, "I ask for respect"

He couldn't take it anymore, he decided to free himself from pain and multiple sclerosis and die at 47. He asked his health company to verify the conditions for accessing medically assisted suicide in Italy, made legal in Italy by the ruling on the Cappato/Antoniani case and took the necessary medicine, assisted by his trusted doctor because no other professional wanted to do it. But first he wanted to leave two messages. "I freely and consciously chose to put an end to a suffering that had become intolerable for me. It was a deeply personal decision, matured over time and taken in full awareness of its consequences. I ask that it be respected for what it is: the exercise of my freedom and self-determination", he wrote in a text. Then the even deeper and more political message, he didn't want us to talk about man or woman. He wanted the term 'person' to be used when making his story known, that is, an autonomous and responsible moral subject. With a dignity.

This is how this person died in Liguria, after self-administration of an end-of-life drug provided by the national health service. He is the 19th patient to have completed the assisted suicide procedure in Italy, the third in Liguria. The Luca Coscioni association announced in a note explaining that "faced with the irreversibility of the disease and the progressive worsening of his conditions, the person began to inquire about his rights at the end of life in Italy and, in June 2025, asked his healthcare company to verify the conditions for accessing medically assisted suicide in Italy". In September 2026, the green light was given to proceed and therefore the confirmation of the presence of the 4 requirements necessary to access assisted suicide: irreversible pathology, suffering considered intolerable, dependence on life support treatment, ability to make free and informed decisions. The association also reported that within the relevant local health company "no doctor was found available to assist the person during the self-administration of the drug. Faced with this unavailability, the health company was willing to launch a public tender to search for a doctor even outside the regional borders. However, given the serious and progressive suffering, the person did not want to wait. The intervention of the trusted doctor who provided the requested assistance was therefore essential".