Italian Woman, 80, Ends Life in Switzerland After Euthanasia Denial

Trieste woman, 80, ends life in Switzerland after Friuli No

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 3 - An 80-year-old woman from Trieste with a terminal neuro-degenerative disease ended her life by assisted suicide in Switzerland Wednesday after the regional government in her native Friuli rejected her bid to do it there despite an Italian supreme court ruling saying such acts are permissible in some circumstances. Lucia killed herself in a Swiss clinic after the refusal by the Friuli Venezia Giulia health authority, the Luca Coscioni right-to-die association announced i...

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