Eluana Englaro has died peacefully.

international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report

Monday February 09, 2009 20:01

by iosaf

Berlusconi & Ratzinger euthanasia audacity fails.

Eluana Englaro has died peacefully this evening

Tomorrow Italy's progressives and secularists will demonstrate against Berlusoni's unconstitutional decree attempting to ensure a woman who was in a coma since 1992 continues in that vegetative state.

In Berlusconi's words :- "She is alive enough to get pregnant". Leaving one only to wonder who would have fathered her child and what would have been the morailty of such an act.

However, the 11th president of the Italian Republic Goirgio Napolitano refused to sign Berlusconi's decree deeming it to be unconstitional. A petition started by Umberto Eco and Dario Foy amongst others has now collected over 1000 signatures.

after 17 years she has surely had her purgatory and walked her calvary?

The extraordinary and highly polemical affair resulted after the Vatican put pressure on the Italian government to stop the family of Eluana Englaro, the 37-year old, who was in a persistent vegetative state since 1992 after a road accident aged 20, from removing her feeding tubes in a private clinic. Article 2278 of the Roman Catholic catechism forbids the withdrawl of life support. Since that article was created modern medicine has advanced to the stage of indefinite continuation of a persistent vegetative state. The church of christ who never taught whether it was morally acceptable to put people on life support systems prefers to place her amongst the perpetually undead amongst such luminaries as Ariel Sharon..,

Below is a picture of the Italian president Goirgio Napolitano http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Napolitano taken in 1975 when as leader of the Italian Communist party he was both excommunicated and in mortal sin a state which all members of his party were placed by the wartime pope Pius XII. The pope who knew about the Holocaust but didn't want to say anything upsetting. The pope who Ratzinger wants to canonise.

In his homily at vernacular mass yesterday Ratzinger obliquely referred to Eluana's case asking the faithful be they Italian or Latin speakers to keep those "in the most mysterious states of suffering in their prayers " ...... obviously as long as they can use the bits of brain that do praying.......

alas, modern medicine has not yet satisfactorily speculated a theory on which parts of your brain do prayer.

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constantly updating news from the Italian communist newspaper "Unita" on Eluana's right to die.