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hello,

I recently read an interesting interview with the Unit Beppino Englaro.
I believe that both share a great way to remember Eluana a little more than a year after his death (or liberation, as his father says).
The law, also seen from Africa, is not the easiest way.

marco writing from internet cafes while sweating profusely (30 degrees and humid ...)


I followed the law in Italy and is annoying "
Luca Landòtutti Articles The surprise of the author
uglier? "Politics." The most beautiful? "My friends from Friuli." He has no doubt Beppino Englaro. Not one has ever had in all 6233 days, counted one by one, that it took to liberate his daughter Eluana (says so right, free) from a body ended up in the hands of medicine and technology, but that certainly was not his. "My luck is that Eluana had very clear ideas. It was a free spirit. If he wanted something does not stop even with the guns. The freedom we had blood in their DNA. This gave me the strength to go on, day after day, asking it to end this unjust ordeal and pointless. It took seventeen years. "

eternity ...
"It's the price you pay in this country when you want to do things in broad daylight, within the law. But on this I never had doubts, I turned to the law to know how I should behave. Because what happened to us was not just about the Englaro family, but all of Italy, as a community. There was a dramatic and difficult that must be addressed: the case wanted to touch us, but the problem was all. So I turned the question to the law. When I realized I could not be excluded for Eluana of getting a permanent vegetative state, I began to ask by what right the doctors in that state tenessero absurd: far from death, away from life. But above all, in a state that she would never want: that country is one in which the will of a citizen does not count for anything? ".

Back a year ago. In Parliament, the news of the death of Eluana a battle broke out. Gasparri and Quagliariello spoke of murder.
"They were not the only ones. At the Court of Udine many complaints came from associations and individuals accusing me of the death of my daughter. That is why, for this deluge of complaints "as written by the magistrate, that the prosecutors opened an investigation on me and 13 other suspects including a doctor De Monte." Investigation closed. "Yes, on 11 January with a decree of the magistrate of Udine Milocco Paul. "

Murder ... have denounced those who launched such serious accusations?
'lawyers Angiolini Campeis of Udine and Milan are considering whether there are means for the crimes of defamation and insult. " Even against

Gasparri and Quagliariello?
"against anyone who has accused but, again, the lawyers decide."

Shortly before the death of her Eluana Berlusconi and Napolitano invited to the bedside of her daughter, why?
"The story was becoming untenable. Had in place a general madness that was taking us away from reality: Eluana had become an excuse, a scapegoat a clash of high and very violent, even a conflict between institutions. I invited them to Udine why it is what we were talking about, what were the actual conditions of Eluana.

Nobody came.
"No, but Napolitano said deed: making it known that he would not sign the decree that prevented the power failure and hydration force."

And Berlusconi?
"I showed up. In return, he decided to break a silence that lasted for years. It was a strange choice. You see, in 2004 I sent a letter to the highest offices of state for handling the case of Eluana. The Presidents of the Republic and the Senate, Ciampi and Pera, responded with a polite letter, the Prime Minister Berlusconi did not even answer. "

They said they had never received.
"is false. I sent that letter on March 4 by registered mail and return receipt, which I keep, it says March 10. That letter arrived regularly. But the question is another: at one point Berlusconi attitude change comes out of the silence and take action, political and media, to stop what the Supreme Court had decided that the possible withdrawal of artificial nutrition and hydration. "

Eluana was when Berlusconi said that was fine, could have a child and that he, like his father, he never detached the plug ...
"Exactly. Yet the prime minister knew exactly what were the conditions of my daughter. I know because I had spoken with the President of the Friuli Venezia Giulia, Renzo Tondo, and with Senator Ferruccio Saro, both were in the room Eluana and both told him how things really were. Berlusconi spoke like that for other reasons, probably under pressure from fundamentalist forces of the majority or more of others. "

The Vatican?
"The intervention of the Church is in practice. Just re-read the sentences handed down by the upper hierarchy, from a Crusade in Bagnasco Barragan, who spoke of euthanasia contradicts what the Supreme Court of Cassation had just said in a ruling. They have been disrespectful not only to me but also to institutions. "

has seen the sisters of Lecco?
"Certainly. With them there has always been an open relationship. Among other things Eluana was born right there at the beginning because it was a maternity clinic. When there was an accident, I came back because I knew they would have taken care of in the best way. I know them well those nuns, and they know me well. For this seemed cruel that phrase in the newspapers and on television: will let that take care of us. They knew very well that once got permission from the judiciary would not have waited a minute longer. Only that them, at some point, they changed attitude. But understand this: first the relationship was between me and them. Then they put half of too many people, too many questions. "

Rifarebbe all in the same way?
"There was no other way. Obviously if you move within the law and in light of the sun. That is in violation of a community of people is given. In the Constitution, in short. "

Shortly after the death of Eluana, Corriere della Sera published an editorial by Pier Luigi Battista in which he accused of having broken the "gray zone" that can solve some medical situations or unsustainable. No one says anything, but in the meantime to increase the dose of morphine ...
"They were displaced because the whole affair was conducted within the law. And that bothered. Because in Italy it is customary to look for tricks and byways, the gray area indeed. "

After the death of her daughter has decided to create the association "For Eluana 'is going on?
"It will become operational next week with a purpose: to increase awareness and fight prejudice. On these topics, of course, which are delicate and complex, but increasingly important. Joseph Pulitzer said that well-informed public opinion is our supreme court. I do not ever quote the maximum, but that phrase is engine of the Foundation. I to get to our Supreme Court, the Supreme Court, it took me fifteen years. With a well-informed public opinion, and a Parliament more closely, it would take me much less to get the answers I was looking for. "

The point is that there were no legal instruments ...
"Yeah, we live in a state of law but at the time lacked the principles of law. For them, those principles, I had to wait for the decision of 16 October 2007. And the ruling was clear: no one has the power to impose treatment against the wishes of the patient. None. The intention of the patient, indeed the city is before all things. "

This country will be able to become really civil?
"I'm convinced. For two reasons. The first is that the cultural climate is changing, people begin to understand the importance of these issues and take a position. The second is that there are judges that go their own way independent of any political power. The story of Eluana I wrote two books, the first I've dedicated to Sati, my wife, who is consumed, literally, to be near her daughter in all these long years. The second, released a few months ago, I dedicated just to them, to independent judges. "

About her said he was, too. For example he wanted to exploit the notoriety and enter politics.
"Nothing further from the truth. The only political act was my support to Senator Marino when he ran for the secretary of the Democratic Party. Why would a doctor like him who devotes himself to politics does not happen often. He is a person who knows how to go further, as I say. And to support the Democratic Party I joined, I who am a socialist and cards I've never had them. That's it. "

Now you say that the song on Eluana Povia lead in San Remo.
"I came to ask me to find, correctly, if I had anything against. I met the person I liked and I trusted. So I said I had nothing against it. "

Returning from a year ago, what was the surprise more negative?
"The behavior of certain policy. Beginning with the President of the Region Formigoni, when clinics in Lombardy imposed a ban on the feeding tube to remove Eluana. And the Minister of Welfare Sacconi, which actually extended the ban on playing at national conventions of the blackmail state. But how: For years the politicians if they had shrugged my case and when it finally moves, it is only to lock everything to put a spoke in the wheel ...».

A positive surprise?
"My friends in the Friuli Venezia Giulia. It was the most beautiful surprise. I have always been proud of my roots and find that in my region there were all these people willing to help me the most was: Renzo Tondo, Ferruccio Saro, Gabriele Renzulli, Ines Domenicali, president of Clinique La Quiete. And Furio Honsell, the mayor of Udine. I remember well when the regions and the clinics were running back, one by one. But my friends, my old fellow Socialists did not leave me alone, I have betrayed. This, at least, it was nice. "