The first legal assisted suicide in Italy, and these are his last words

Today, Thursday, the first person who was allowed to commit suicide by illegal means died in Italy, where this practice is subject to very strict control, according to what the Luca Cocconi Association, an activist for the legalization of this practice, announced.

Federico Carboni, who was known by the media under the pseudonym "Mario" until his death in order to preserve his privacy, died after injecting himself with a drug using a special device costing about five thousand euros, for which the Luca Cocconi Association launched a fundraising call.

Federico Carboni, 44, was a truck driver when he became quadriplegic in 2010 after a traffic accident in which he fractured his spine.

He has repeatedly asked the health authorities in Marche, the central district where he lives, for permission to use assisted suicide.

This permission was denied until a team of lawyers from the Luca Cocconi Association intervened.

Currently, Italian law punishes assisted suicide, with imprisonment from 5 to 12 years.

 In 2019, the Constitutional Court, Italy's highest legal body, made an exception to this provision "for patients who survive treatments and who suffer from incurable diseases which constitute a source of physical and psychological suffering they consider intolerable, with full capacity to make free and informed decisions." ».

Federico Carboni met all of these criteria.

In his last words, according to the statement, he said, "I do not deny that it pains me to say goodbye to life. If I said otherwise, I would be a liar and a denial of the truth, because life is wonderful and we only live once."

"I did my best to try to live as well as possible but I'm exhausted mentally and physically, I'm at the mercy of events and completely dependent on others," Carbone added.

I am like a boat in the ocean.”

Federico Carboni concluded his speech by saying, "I am aware of my physical conditions and the prospects available to me, so I am completely calm and in a certain mind about what to do."

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