>>>In a major victory for right-to-die advocates in Roman Catholic Italy, prosecutors on Tuesday cleared a doctor of wrongdoing after he switched off the life support of a terminally ill patient who had asked to die. >>>
The doctor didn't commit euthanisia, he merely let a person refuse treatment.
After watching my mother suffer with cancer, I thought "Wow, that Dr. Kavorkian doesn't seem like such a bad fella". My mother never would have set up her own suicide, but she surely sympathized with someone who was destined to live a brutal life for years on end. Luckily, her suffering was shortlived compared to some, but death doesn't come so quick for some.
Flame retardant suit handy.
That's the stick in the whole "Euthanasia" argument. If a person gives or makes know explicitly that they no longer want to continue treatment, why should their wishes be ignored? Euthanasia and refusing treatment (Either verbally or in a living will) are 2 totally different things.