Eluana, the truth
Thomas CernoThe young man had now 'irreversible damage'. The results of evacuate brain expertise doubt. And close the door to the controversy
Eluana could not wake up. No, I would forever remain trapped in the darkness of her persistent vegetative state. The miraculous recovery that many have theorized, on television and in newspapers, it was not possible. At least not for science. Now we know. Already that night in January 1992, when the car skidded on ice returning from a party with friends, suffered a Eluana "irreversible damage". They are no longer Englaro family's lawyers who said it. And there are doctors who have cared for for 17 years to show all agree in confirming the diagnosis that there was no hope. This time to tell us is she, Eluana. With the single, tragic message that his brain girl become a woman without knowing it, was able to send after the crash. Talk through the examinations of the brain, further investigation prepared by the prosecution of Udine in May to clear all doubts about the death on 9 February at the clinic quiet. After five months, the report is ready. Suit everyone: neurologists appointed Fabrizio Tagliavini, Carlo Besta in Milan at the primary, and Raffaele De Caro, Professor, University of Padova; the expert witnesses, Stephen and Happy Giangaspero Pizzolitto, as well as experts led by the Attorney Friulian Carlo Moreschi.
The final report will be delivered these days to the Chief Prosecutor Antonio Biancardi. But the last meeting in Padua has explored everything lesions, atrophy, damage to the thalamus, the corpus callosum, the two hemispheres. A host of big words and medical conditions that confirm a simple and dramatic truth: "The neuropathological damage observed are morphologically irreversible," he says in 'The Express' examinations those who took them and studied. It means that his brain could not heal. And Eluana could not emerge from its state vegetable, thus disproving scientists, lawyers, priests and ladies who swore to the contrary. Prime Minister Berlusconi in the lead.
is the last piece of a story that has split Italy, ignited a clash between government and the Quirinale Palace, reopened the wound between secular and Catholic. A document that is to add up to thousands of other pages already in the hands of judges. Expertise, diagnosis, medical records, requests for admission, minutes of the ASL and Nas, they all say the same thing: Eluana was there, but there was not really. Did not respond to pain, perceived the presences around. He had no hot or cold. It lacked only one thing. Responding to the most important question: whether or not there was a light at the end of that tunnel? You
on this point that the battle was much tougher. The accusations rained down on Amato De Monte, the anesthesiologist who picked up the tube, were very heavy. They apostrophe as "Executioner", who is accused of "killing a person conscious that he could open his eyes at any moment." When Beppino went for the last time her daughter in Friuli, he faced a huge banner: "Murderess." All the while a white tent prevented photographers to desecrate the room Eluana. The neurologist Gianluigi Gigli spoke of "a person from the body strong, he never needed to particular drugs." Without ever having visited. And when the requirements lists galore, given for years: Dintoina, Pantopan, Supradyn, Adalat, Cipro, Norvasc. Giuliano Dolce, who was also a doctor, saw Eluana in Lecco and explained that "certain features remained, particularly swallowing. A possibility denied by the same nuns Misericordine that the handling since 1994. Berlusconi led to speculation that it could "create a child in a vegetative state that could change, as has been seen several times." Minister Angelino Alfano said he was "dead to Judgement," because the woman at the bottom was fine.
None of this is more confirmation. Neither the clinical journal of the last days in Udine nell'autopsia or February, and even now in the examinations of the brain. Although not to process the vital functions of Eluana, being performed after death, study the extent of morphological damage. And as a second analysis provides an important confirmation. The situation of the brain was "consistent with the persistent vegetative state." From the first day of admission to intensive care 18 January 1992, with the diagnosis of "coma and paraplegia in spinal cord concussion." This has always been, even when he started to breathe without machines. During my years institute Blessed Luigi Talamoni, and after you arrive in Udine, on 3 February, isolated and protected in the room that would house his final journey. As they say the cards, was an empty body. A prison, precisely as repeated Beppino dad, convinced that her daughter would never have accepted those therapies, and ready to fulfill the promise he had made when one of the closest friends of Eluana lying in a hospital bed with a tube in his stomach, motionless as a plant, "Dad, promise me that if happen to me, you set me free."
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