Where is the law on living wills?
was February 9, 2009 when the Senate was debating the Bill would ensure that n.1369 formalize and institute laws governing the maintenance of patients in persistent vegetative state.
necessary to correct a hole on a hot topic of legislation by all Italians, and came to prominence with the case of Eluana.
Public opinion is deeply divided between those who shared the desire to Eluana addressed Peppino and his father forced a power failure and those who tended to continue to provide what is necessary to ensure a continuous vegetative state.
The discussion of living will be widened so much that he came to the institutional venues.
On that February 9, 2009 but died Eluana be prepared all the legislators and parliamentarians with a curious nature of involvement in this case, they showed the entire country as their own care Eluana and problems related to his problem.
That bill n.1369 and discussions that had sprung up, which occurred suddenly were dampened by news of the death of Eluana, making re-think the majority parliamentary group on steps, with completion of the withdrawal of this legislative proposal, considered by many strings and not shared by the majority of parliamentarians.
Then the promise by the Government was to engage in a short time to rewrite a legislative proposal are more structured and more shared, which take into account all aspects related to living wills, artificial nutrition and treatment accompanying the survival of patients in persistent vegetative state. The aim was also to have such a law is widely shared as the external moral involvement by the Italians who had been created around this issue.
Since then the absolute silence, this government which has become a 'government of doing', he forgot everything.
Urgency and transport shown by our Members at that time was completely dissolved almost as if the problem of patients in vegetative state had been dissolved forever by the death of Eluana.
The impression I had is that the policy at that time wanted to ride the emotional wave that affected the Italians and divided them, and then govern the assents of those who felt exactly this problem.
Why then a year and a half from February 9, 2009 that did not move anything? Why
lawmaker has no further mention of this huge problem of a legislative and moral interest to the whole country? Perhaps
we have to wait another case or another case Welby Englaro and maybe he will wake up our sleepy politicians quell'emotività that could lead them to do their duty those who are addressing the real problems of a country, and that the living will is one of those really urgent priority.
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