What does it mean to live?

[Marco77]

This guy was a very popular deejay in Italy. Unfortunately he suffered an accident that left him paralyzed, blind and unable to feed himself. From that moment he was kidnapped by the cursed pro-lifers and years of horror began for him. He just wanted to die and couldn't do it. He also wrote to the President of the Republic. President who did nothing, he could have wiped his ass himself, the president was healthy, he was also pro-life. At a certain point an association of the Italian radical party intervened. A certain Marco Cappato accompanied him to Switzerland where he finally found peace after three very long years (blind and completely paralyzed). Upon returning to Italy Marco Cappato underwent a criminal trial for ASSISTANCE TO SUICIDE. After a long process he was fully acquitted. There are many people who experience deejay Fabo's terrible condition and don't have the money to go to Switzerland, they don't have anyone to help them. This is life. There are not only the risks of a failed suicide. There are enormous risks to living. Much bigger risks, especially statistically.

 

[Darkover]

The story of DJ Fabo is deeply tragic and illustrates the immense suffering that can occur when someone is denied the right to die with dignity. Fabo, whose real name was Fabiano Antoniani, was paralyzed and blind following a car accident and spent years trapped in a body that no longer allowed him to live independently. His desperate pleas to end his suffering were ignored by the government, and the legal system in Italy prevented him from accessing assisted suicide. His journey highlights the cruelty of forcing people to endure a life they no longer want, especially when their condition offers no chance of improvement.

Marco Cappato's involvement, risking legal consequences to help Fabo travel to Switzerland for assisted suicide, underscores the immense difficulties faced by people in similar situations. Many cannot afford to travel to countries where assisted dying is legal, and even fewer have someone willing to help them navigate this path, as Cappato did. His eventual acquittal was a step toward acknowledging the rights of individuals like Fabo, but it does little to change the broader systemic issues that force so many to suffer against their will.

You're right that the risks of living can be much greater than the risks of a failed suicide attempt. The idea that life inherently contains enormous risks—physical, emotional, and psychological—adds weight to the argument that people should have more autonomy over their own end-of-life decisions, especially when living becomes an unbearable burden.

The injustice of situations like Fabo's raises important ethical questions about the role of the state, personal autonomy, and compassion in cases of extreme suffering. It brings into focus the often painful gap between the sanctity-of-life rhetoric and the harsh reality many people endure.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Poor man. That's awful. It really is like a hostage situation.

It reminds me of this scene from 'Game of Thrones':

 

[NoPoint2Life]

I agree with all of that. That situation sounds absolutely horrifying. It's why in my mind I am always scared that my world could change in just an instant and become even more unbearable.

 

[pariah80]

This is exactly why the "life at all costs" narrative is bankrupt, backwards, and evil.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

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This guy was a very popular deejay in Italy. Unfortunately he suffered an accident that left him paralyzed, blind and unable to feed himself. From that moment he was kidnapped by the cursed pro-lifers and years of horror began for him. He just wanted to die and couldn't do it. He also wrote to the President of the Republic. President who did nothing, he could have wiped his ass himself, the president was healthy, he was also pro-life. At a certain point an association of the Italian radical party intervened. A certain Marco Cappato accompanied him to Switzerland where he finally found peace after three very long years (blind and completely paralyzed). Upon returning to Italy Marco Cappato underwent a criminal trial for ASSISTANCE TO SUICIDE. After a long process he was fully acquitted. There are many people who experience deejay Fabo's terrible condition and don't have the money to go to Switzerland, they don't have anyone to help them. This is life. There are not only the risks of a failed suicide. There are enormous risks to living. Much bigger risks, especially statistically.

That is just one horrible thing that can happen to any human any day.

No one is immune to extremely horrible things happening to them .

I don't know what these people r thinking : the people who are trying to silence those of us that are advocating for the right to die.

They think everyone and they are immune to something horrible like this happening to them

No one is immune to extremely horrible things happening to them .

If you want to take such risks to live in this evil prison world I don't care go ahead. Just don't force us who don't don't want to take such risks to stay in this prison hell when we don't want to.

They made nembutal and someone helping with suicide crimes to steal our right to escape extreme torture

 

[FuneralCry]

Rest in peace, it's just so horrific to me how there's all this extreme suffering in existing with no limit as to how much agony one can feel, ceasing to exist is all I personally wish for as only then am I unable to suffer, it terrifies me how existing can instantly get way more torturous and unbearable.

 

[NoPoint2Life]

I know I already replied to this, but I can't stop thinking about it. Thanks OP for posting it.
What I'm wondering about now is how doctors must feel. They take an oath to save lives and I think most of them do seem set on doing that no matter the outcome but there's gotta be a few that would think saving the person's life like this would not be worth the outcome. I wonder how this guy's particular doctors feel after doing whatever they did to save him all to leave him in this condition only for him to be miserable for three years and in the end beg for assisted suicide. It's like now This is making me see things differently like doctors are considered here to help us but how often do they end up making someone's life 100 times worse?