Italy: Man undergoes first legally approved assisted suicide
18 June 2022 |
1:09 pm
A 44-year-old man who was paralyzed from the neck down was the first to be authorized for medically assisted suicide. Having no independence left him physically and mentally like a "boat drifting on the ocean," he said.
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