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(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 24 - "Life is beautiful, but only if we
are free," said a 78-year-old woman with terminal cancer who
committed assisted suicide in Italy on Sunday in her last
message to the Luca Coscioni Association, made public on Monday.
"Life is beautiful, but only if we are free. And I was until the
end. Thank you," said 'Gloria' (not her real name) in the
message.
The woman was the second person in Italy to have put an end to
her suffering through assisted suicide on the basis of the
Constitutional Court's 2019 'Cappato ruling', named after
right-to-die campaigner Marco Cappato, making assisted suicide
permissible in certain circumstances. (ANSA).
'Life is beautiful' says 'Gloria' before assisted suicide
'But only if we are free. And I was until the end.'