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Tue 02 Feb 2009Italian woman in right-to-die controversy dies
ELUANA ENGLARO, the 37-year-old comatose Italian woman who has been at the centre of a “right-to-die” controversy, died in a clinic in northern Italy last night, three days after doctors disconnected her feeding tubes in accordance with her family’s wishes.
Her father, Beppino Englaro, had waged a 10-year legal and political battle for Eluana’s right to die in accordance, he claims, with her wishes expressed before the 1992 car crash which left her in a “persistent vegetative state”.
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