Italian coma battle woman dies

[pokerfan]

Yeah, the same woman the http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/02/she_is_in_the_condition_to_hav.php">POS right wing PM wanted to keep alive because she was "in the condition to have babies." In other words, she wasn't "womb-dead."

Eluana Englaro, the Italian woman at the centre of a right-to-die debate, has died, the health minister has said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7880070.stm">Italian coma battle woman dies

[roguevalley]

1. there is something seriously sick about people who simplify people

into genitals. if you know what I mean.

[Bozita]

2. How convenient, ... for Berlusconi

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. That was quick - just earlier today, they were thinking she'd stay alive till the end of the week

in which case Berlusconi might have been able to force through his "I control her life support" law. Well, this keeps things simpler for this case, anyway. But this sounds as if it will be a general law:

Mr Berlusconi, who has a parliamentary majority, subsequently said parliament would enact a new law barring doctors halting nutrition to patients in a coma.

The Senate is expected to hold a vote on the matter on Tuesday, while the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, could take up the bill as soon as Wednesday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7878270.stm

[HeresyLives]

4. Solves the immediate crisis.

Now Italy should decide what they want to do in future cases, instead of having people become political footballs.

[rvablue]

5. May she rest in peace ..... finally......n/t

[Enrique]

6. should have taken her to a Bryan Adams concert

he seems to have an effect on European women.

http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=8526

MUNICH (Reuters Health) - A young woman left in a coma for six years after she collapsed at school has started to respond to the world around her after her mother took her to see her pop star hero Bryan Adams perform live.

Christiane Kittel, now 24, was left in a vegetative state after her collapse on 12 June 1997. Doctors believe her condition was caused by a combination of hot weather, a hereditary haemophilia condition and side-effects of the contraceptive pill.

She had to be resuscitated three times, once at school and twice at the University Clinic in Regensburg, where she underwent surgery before being attached to life-support machines in the intensive care unit.

Later she was moved to the intensive care unit at the Clinic for Neurologic Rehabilitation in Regensburg, where her parents Karl-Gunther and Adelheide Kittel have kept a 15-hour watch by her bedside every day.

[Sal Minella]

7. So if a California IVF doctor was rushing to Italy to implant eight or ten embryos into

her uterus, he's out of luck???