Il 73% of Italians would be in favor of euthanasia. This is confirmed by recent research by Eurispes. However, if we go on to discern the search criteria and the specific contents of the individual questions, we discover a slightly different reality. At least the 60% of Italians, for example, they declare themselves against assisted suicide, different from euthanasia only in modality but certainly not in substance. Not to mention the countless reservations expressed by that 73% of favorable ones, there is even one 77,5% of interviewees who would allow euthanasia only in the event of an "irreversible coma", or brain death, considered by most scientific literature as death everything short.
Even if the Eurispes data did not lend itself to so many misunderstandings and ambiguities, they would still remain very questionable. Doctor Silvana De Mari is convinced of this, medico, blogger, writer and activist pro life. In conversation with Pro Life, De Mari argued that Italians' opinion on euthanasia would change significantly, if they were shown the effects of agony due to induced dehydration, through which Terry Schiavo and Eluana Englaro were killed.
By Mari, how credible are the Eurispes data on Italians' opinion on euthanasia? It is likely that the 73% admit it?
We all know that data collection can change a lot depending on the sample being examined. But what if this data were also extended to the entire population, these are people who have not had all the information necessary to understand what is happening.
Why?
The fact that some people were made to die from dehydration was even passed off as a celebration of human dignity. So, given that an enormous amount of narratives – films are added to the political discussion, TV series, novels – where all this is invoked, people are very confused. I found Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans, the two children who were not allowed to be accompanied until the natural end of their lives, proves it dramatically. People are not informed about abortion, they have never seen photos of the little bodies of the fetuses; they are not informed about euthanasia, they never saw the photos of Terry Schiavo or Eluana Englaro dying of dehydration. So there is some information missing. Where information is under censorship, public opinion is of little importance. I am absolutely certain that, to the extent that we showed Italians photographs of someone dying of dehydration, the contrary would rise to the 98%.
There are economic interests behind euthanasia?
Absolutely yes. There is enormous economic interest because the patient costs money. When we switched to the mutual system, it seemed like a good thing to us, because even the poor could be treated like this, actually, we have given the state enormous power. And at this point, the State decides whether our life is worth living or not. It could happen to any of us or to a person we love against our will.
An argument used by supporters of euthanasia: unnecessary suffering for the patient would be avoided...
As for death from dehydration, it is necessary to distinguish between pain and suffering, often mistakenly understood as synonyms. Pain is a physical reaction and perception mediated by the spino-thalamo-cortical bundle, while suffering is the mental processing of pain. For example: if we have done a lot of sit-ups, the next day our abs will hurt a little. This is pain but not suffering: we will be proud of having done gymnastics so well. If, however, I have the same pain from sore muscles because I am a prisoner in a concentration camp or a gulag and I know that, the next day, because of those sore muscles, I won't be able to work, then I will be beaten or killed, there, Instead, it becomes suffering.
The pain of a physiological birth that is going well, with the midwife saying: "courage, Lady, the hair is already out, a few more pushes...", it's pain pure and simple. Cancer pain, Instead, it is suffering. Even assuming that those dying from dehydration do not perceive suffering (which remains to be demonstrated), they definitely feel pain. If then their brain (of which we know nothing, because the most uncertain branch of medicine is the cerebral one) is able to perceive something, then these people will have died in suffering. This opens the “Overton window” on which lives are worth living and the state decides which lives are worth living and which are not.. This is terribly dangerous.
Luca Marcolivio
source – https://www.notizieprovita.it/notizie-dallitalia/eutanasia-parla-de-mari-73-favorevole-se-sapessero-come-si-muore-il-dato-sarebbe-diverso/