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12 April 2017After dj Fabo, another patient was accompanied to Switzerland by the Luca Coscioni Association for euthanasia. This was announced by Marco Cappato, treasurer of the association, on Facebook. "Mina Welby - he writes - is accompanying Davide to Switzerland. Suffering from multiple sclerosis since '93, he turned to me for euthanasia. We also help him".

Davide is 53 years old and lives in Tuscany, he decided to die because he no longer wants to live "with pain all day" and because he believes that his "is no longer a life to be lived but a sentence to be served".

The man lives with his 73-year-old mother and many health problems, and who supports him in his choice, the activists of the Luca Coscioni association explain. Davide "speaks with difficulty, taking long pauses. He feels pains all over his body for twenty-four hours a day, without respite. He can move less and less and any movement, even the smallest causes him terrible suffering". He says he does not see any prospect in front of him, and that for over a year now his life is only suffering.

At the end of 2016 it took the decision to resort to euthanasia, which defines "a liberation, a dream, a vacation". In 1993 Davide was 27 years old and was a bartender, at one point he started not to feel a side of his body, they still explain from the association.

"Living hurts too much," Davive had confessed last December in an interview with 'Libero'. "They could have put out a cigarette on me - he said - giving me a knife, but I was completely numb." The disease (which he calls "the bitch"), as always happens, has gradually worsened, until a few months ago Davide asked his 73-year-old mother to help him end it. The woman wrote to a Swiss clinic, but found that euthanasia has a
price not only human, but also economic: to be precise € 9,500, too many. It was then that Davide asked for help at the eutanasialegale.it site managed by Marco Cappato, Mina Welby and Gustavo Fraticelli.

They are the ones who help him find the money he needs, and organize the trip, just like they did with DJ Fabo. Today the departure together with Mina Welby towards what he considers a relief.

Since March 2015, the month in which the "SOS euthanasia" action was launched by the Luca Coscioni Association, information was provided to 268 people who presented themselves in a non-anonymous form, and of these 3 were accompanied physically. These are Piera Franchini in 2012, Dj Fabo and Davide. One, Domenique Velati was only helped financially. In the replies, in addition to giving information on the suspension of therapies in Italy, the association that today accompanied the man suffering from multiple sclerosis in Switzerland, provides information, the association states, on the Swiss clinics only to those who could have the requirements , provided that the clinics themselves will decide on the basis of the legislation of the country.