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Rest in Peace Eluana

Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi has said that he holds the communist president partly to blame for Eluana's death and it looks like the justice ministry might investigate further.

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Italian Premier Blames President for Eluana Englaro's Death, Vatican Responds

Rome, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- In the day following the euthanasia death of Eluana Englaro, the disabled woman in a similar condition as Terri Schiavo, top political leaders are blaming one another for her death. Meanwhile, the Vatican has responded to Englaro's death and the Catholic Church says patients need more protections.

Englaro died on Monday after four days of partial starvation and dehydration after a medical clinic agreed to follow a court order allowing her father to take her life.

On Tuesday, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Englaro was "killed" and blamed President Giorgio Napolitano for her death because he refused to sign an emergency order to allow her food and water.

"Eluana did not die a natural death," Berlusconi told the Libero daily newspaper. "She was killed."

"Napolitano made a serious mistake," another paper quoted Berlusconi as saying. He lamented that the Italian parliament was not able to approve another measure in time to save her.

Englaro was "the only citizen to be condemned to death," he said, and added that the decision by the medical clinic to stop feeding her amounted to euthanasia, which is illegal in Italy. . .

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Charges May Not Come in Eluana Englaro Case, Medical Hearing on Thursday

Rome, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- Local authorities and officials in the Udine region of Italy are unsure whether the medical staff who removed Eluana Englaro's feeding tube will face any hearings or charges in connection with her euthanasia death. Englaro died on Monday after four days of starvation and dehydration.

Her death was ordered by an Italian appeals court after her father Beppino had spent the better part of a decade fighting to take her life.

Englaro was expected to live two weeks but she succumbed to the starvation after only four days.

Prior to the removal of her feeding tube, national officials indicated they would prosecute the staff of any medical center that would remove it and cause her death.

On Tuesday, in the chaotic fallout from Englaro's death, the Udine prosecutor's office has ordered an autopsy on Englaro's body.

Public prosecutor in nearby Trieste, Beniamino Deidda, told the Italian news agency ANSA, ''For the moment we have no news from the commission of any crime."

Meanwhile, the Udine branch of the Italian Medical Association is planning a hearing on Thursday to establish whether disciplinary proceedings should go ahead for the medical team that removed her feeding tube. . .

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The Russian Orthodox Church is calling euthanasia exactly what it is.

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Advocates of legalizing euthanasia impose “new totalitarianism” on society,- Moscow Patriarchate

Moscow, February 10, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church stands against euthanasia as “a form of suicide.”

“Suggestions to legalize euthanasia drive us away from freedom. It’s strange to hear such appeals to new forms of totalitarianism, imposing of certain attitude to new form of suicide at legislative level from some human rights advocates,” acting Secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Fr. Georgy Ryabykh told Interfax-Religion on Tuesday.

He believes that advocates of euthanasia “push a person to commit suicide,” while today there works a principle of “voluntary choice” on the question. According to Fr. Georgy, when the Church doesn’t accept euthanasia and considers it “a form of suicide,” thus it “expresses greater respect to human freedom than some human rights advocates, who demand a legislative permission for this action.”

The priest reminds that today legislation doesn’t prohibit euthanasia, people themselves take decision whether to commit suicide or not and consequently “some countries, including prosperous ones, are concerned with the increasing number of suicides.” The Church position, Fr. Georgy believes, “appeals to human conscience.”

“If the right on euthanasia is secured, it will impose certain restrictions on society. For example, doctors will be obliged to do it according to the law, even if they don’t wish. Besides, if we bring this question to the legal sphere, we provoke the tendency to suicides in society,” the interviewee of the agency said. . .

Rest in Peace Eluana

The murderers have released portions of the medical log and the autopsy seems to indicate that Eluana died of dehydration.

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Medical Center's Log Shows Starvation Took Toll on Eluana Englaro Quickly

Rome, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- The log from the medical center whose staff began the process of starving and dehydrating Eluana Englaro to death shows it took its toll on the disabled woman quickly. Englaro suffered from the effects of the withdrawal of food and water more rapidly than similar patients and died faster as well.

“Monday afternoon, temperature rises. Mucous membranes dry. Nurses spray lips with water droplets," the log read on Monday. A few hours later, Englaro died.

The Italian daily newspaper Corriere Della Sera says a "distress log" accompanied Englaro's medical records during the final days of her life.

The newspaper indicated the Italian nuns who took care of Englaro prior to her arrival at the medical center where she was deprived of food and water did a good job because she arrived in a very healthy condition. . .

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Eluana Englaro Autopsy Claims No Wrongdoing in Starvation, Euthanasia Death

Rome, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- The results of the autopsy conducted on Eluana Englaro following her euthanasia death via starvation and dehydration claim no wrongdoing. The autopsy reveals no signs of foul play even though Englaro died quickly from the withdrawal of food and water as opposed to dying over a two week process as Terri Schiavo did.

Englaro died on Monday following four days of staff at her medical center denying her nutrition she had received from a feeding tube.

The disabled woman had been in a minimally conscious state for 17 years following an automobile accident at the age of 21 and her father had won a court ruling allowing him to kill her.

Some anti-euthanasia advocates were concerned that something had been done to hasten her death faster than would have been normal. Also, Englaro's own neurologist and medical team indicated they expected her to live for two weeks following the initial deprivation of food and water.

But preliminary results from the autopsy found that she died of a cardio-respiratory failure due to dehydration, police sources told Reuters. . .

"We will not be silent.
We are your bad conscience.
The White Rose will give you no rest."