After a Court Battle, a Woman Agrees to Assisted Suicide in Italy with a Machine Created to Be Activated with a Glance

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After a long judicial battle that lasted for more than two years, Libera, a 55-year-old Italian woman suffering from multiple sclerosis and becoming tetraplegic, died on Wednesday from assisted suicide with the support of a special machine that was activated with the gaze of the sick woman to provide her with a lethal drug.

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In Italy, a 55-year-old woman had access to euthanasia assisted by a machine. The case was made known after the death of Noelia Castillo, 25 years old, after receiving assisted death in Spain. In Italy, euthanasia is prohibited, so a judge ordered the National Research Council to build a machine so that the woman herself could give lethal injection. Judicial proceedings The woman had multiple sclerosis since 2007, which had caused her tetraplegi…