A chilling story, the one we are talking about today, with dark and not yet well-defined outlines, on which the Catania prosecutor's office opened an investigation for "incitement to suicide". It's the story of Alessandra Giordano from Paternò, died on 27 last March, in a house in the industrial area of ​​Pfäffikon, near Zurich. This is the Swiss clinic Dignitas, where euthanasia has been practiced for many years and which also saw the passage of DJ Fabo, arrived there and never returned.
Alessandra, However, he did not have unbearable suffering due to some terrible disease: she was depressed and had been suffering from chronic neuralgia for some time: Eagle syndrome. This may have been enough to induce her to flee her homeland, without even informing his family and setting off in total solitude to make such a dramatic and definitive choice for his life? This is what the Catania prosecutor's office is investigating, as the newspaper reveals The Truth, Why the suspicion that someone may have acted on his altered conscience is really strong. Her brother talks about her on The Truth descrivendola come «a strong woman, determined, confident, enterprising, solar. He worked in primary school. She went to class regularly until two years ago. He loved his job. His students and grandchildren were his life. And she also dreamed of a family and children».
However, the beginning of his psychological decline began in 2008, after his father's death, event that makes her sink into depression so much so that she abandons her job as a teacher, limiting themselves to spending the days in bed. With this certainly not "lucid" state of mind he begins to entertain the thought of assisted death. An unthinkable idea for his family members with whom he talks about it. As long as the 25 last March an acquaintance meets, by chance, Alessandra at Catania airport and informs her family. After numerous unsuccessful phone calls, her family understands that she has flown to Switzerland and tries to bring her home. The Foreign Ministry is alerted, his brother Massimiliano sends a warning to Dignitas, attaching the latest medical certificate: «My sister is not in her mental capacity, at present, to make such a decision. We reserve, should you proceed, to take legal action» but receives no response. Then he personally goes to Switzerland.
At Zurich airport, at the suggestion of the Farnesina, he turns to the local police who promise to contact the Dignitas, but this does not happen. A final phone call from Alessandra to her family confirms the inexorability of her decision: even the clinic bill, of approx 10.000 euro, it has already been paid. His passage from life and death is "planned" in soli 3 days: I'll arrive on Monday 25 March, hotel accommodation on Tuesday, I meet the doctor on Wednesday and arrive at the death clinic on Thursday, never to return. The way in which relatives are "notified" is disconcerting, after doing everything possible to save her: In fact, his ashes will be delivered to the family with a farewell note.
But one of the most disturbing aspects of the story, which the Catania Prosecutor's Office is investigating, is the discovery, among Alessandra's documents, of an article by Emilio Coveri, president of Exit, an Italian association "for the right to a dignified death" in close relationship with the Dignitas. An article that is a very detailed story, dating back to January 2018, in the periodical sent to the members of Exit, in which Coveri reports a phone call received from a certain Alessandra di Paternò. «She is alone and her relatives do not accept that she wants to go to Switzerland to die», we read in the article in question. «Every now and then she puts forward the fact that she is a believer» but after a long phone call with Coveri, he seems to change his mind and no longer hesitate. The president of Exit gloss: «I feel happy. My theory prevailed. Life is ours, no one else's. Much less that God who wants to make us suffer needlessly and his entire gang».
Not to mention the incredible exchange of emails, finished in the records, between the Dignitas and Alessandra. Like the communication from a year ago in which the clinic asks the woman for some documents and the clarification on a medical report which certifies that the pain linked to neuralgia has completely disappeared. In short, a good state of health which would in no way justify his desperate gesture. Therefore the Dignitas urges Alessandra to have her neurologist declare it in writing «that the pain has unfortunately returned or will reappear undaunted». A suspicious communication to the point of having brought the Catania Prosecutor's Office, immediately after the woman's death, to order the seizure of his assets because the prosecutors fear that he has registered all his assets to the clinic itself.
A terrible story that we hope will influence the parliamentary discussion on euthanasia, proposed by 5 place, given that with the possible legalization of euthanasia The future of each of us is at stake That, apparently, risks being in increasingly less safe hands.
Manuela Antonacci
source – https://www.notizieprovita.it/notizie-dal-mondo/leutanasia-di-alessandra-in-svizzera-una-vicenda-dai-contorni-oscuri/