Italian Government Blocks Right-to-Die Case, Orders Hospital to Continue Feeding Comatose Patient

The family of an Italian woman who has been in a coma for 17 years will not be allowed to disconnect her feeding tube despite a court ruling that supported their position. Italy’s government has stepped in and ordered the hospital to continue feeding the woman despite evidence that she had expressed a preference for dying rather than being kept alive artificially.

Eluana Englaro was left in a vegetative state following a car accident in 1992 and her father had been fighting for the right to let her die since 1999. In November Italy’s highest court ruled that the hospital could respect Englaro’s preference and could stop feeding her.

While the court ruled in favor of the family Italy’s government issued an emergency decree on Friday stipulating that the hospital must continue feeding Englaro, setting up a conflict between the government and the court.

Earlier in the week Englaro had been transferred to a clinic that had agreed to remove the feeding tube but that decision now appears blocked as the government takes the position of the Roman Catholic Church which equates such an act as euthanasia, an act equivalent to murder.

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