These are the last words entrusted to a video of Elena, the 69-year-old Venetian woman terminal cancer patient, known yesterday by the fancy name 'Adelina,' before her trip to Switzerland accompanied by Marco Cappato of the Luca Coscioni Association.
“I have always been convinced that every person should decide on his or her own life and should do so even on his or her own end, without constraint, without imposition, freely, and I think I have done so, after giving it a lot of thought, even putting in place beliefs that I had even before the disease. I certainly would have preferred to end my life in my bed, in my home, holding my daughter’s hand and my husband’s hand. Unfortunately, this was not possible and, therefore, I had to come here alone.”
These are the last words entrusted to a video of Elena, the 69-year-old Venetian woman terminal cancer patient, known yesterday by the fancy name ‘Adelina,’ before her trip to Switzerland accompanied by Marco Cappato of the Luca Coscioni Association.
The woman had been diagnosed with lung microcytoma in early July 2021. From the beginning, doctors had told her that she would have little chance of coming out of it; after attempts at treatment, she was told that there were only a few more months of survival, with the situation gradually becoming more and more burdensome.
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