Italian man cleared to let daughter die
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Italy's top court has authorised a father to remove the feeding tube which has kept his daughter alive for 16 years, removing the last legal hurdle in a landmark right-to-die case that has split the country.
Eluana Englaro, who is now 37, has been in a vegetative state at a hospital in northern Italy since a 1992 car crash.
The Cassation Court, in a verdict released on Thursday, rejected an appeal against a ruling by a lower tribunal, which had also authorised – for the first time in mainly Catholic Italy – the removal of life support.
- Reuters
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