by Roberto Saviano
FROM ITALIAN just feel the need to hope that my country to apologize to Beppino Englaro. Sorry it has been shown, in the eyes of the world, a cruel country, unable to understand the suffering of a man and a sick woman. Sorry because he started screaming, and acknowledge, by rooting for one side and the other, that there were parts to defend.
This is not to be for life or death. Not so. Beppino Englaro tifava certainly not for the death of Eluana, even his look has the traits of the pain of a father who has lost all hope of happiness - and even beauty - through the suffering of his daughter. Beppino went and it must be respected as a man and a citizen also, and especially if you do not share his ideas. Because it is aimed at institutions and in fighting institutions and institutions, has only requested that the Supreme Court's decision was respected.
No doubt those who disagree with the position of Beppino (and those who had expressed Eluana undeniably alive) was entitled, imposed by his conscience, the duty to express opposition to stop eating and hydration, which for years took place through a tube. But the battle had to be made on the consciousness and do not in any way trying to interfere with a decision on which the judiciary was wondering for some time.
Beppino asked the law and the law, After years of appeals and complaints, has confirmed that what was called his right. That was enough to trigger anger and hatred against him? But Christian charity is that which goes by the name murderess? I learned from Christian history has to acknowledge the pain of others first of all. And to understand it and feel it in their flesh. But someone who knows nothing of the pain of a daughter motionless in a bed, Beppino compares to the "Count Ugolino" which devours his own children from starvation? And dare to say such crap in the name of a religious belief. But it is not. I know a church that is the only one to operate in the more difficult, close to the most desperate situations, only one that gives life to the dignity of migrants, who is ignored by the institutions, to those who can not float in this crisis. Unique in giving food and being present to those who would listen to no one. Comboni Fathers and the community of Sant'Egidio, Cardinal Sepe and Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, are orders, associations, Christian personalities critical to the survival of the dignity of our country.
know this Christian history. Not that the prosecution in a helpless that his father has only the weapon of the law. Beppino of respect for his daughter Eluana has released photos of smiling and beautiful, just to remember her in life, but he could show his face deformed - wan? Swollen? - Become calloused ears and runny slime, a body without expression and without hair. But he would not win by force of the blackmail of the picture, he only had the force of that law that allows the human being, as such, they can decide their own destiny. Who wants to create credit with the church displaying Eluana proximity to wonder, when the church where he railed against the war in Iraq? And when the church asks where humanity and respect for migrants crammed between Lampedusa and the depths of the Mediterranean. Where, when the church in some areas, the only voice of resistance, demand for decisive action against the mafias and the South.
would be nice to ask non-Christians in Italy believe those who feel only speculate on where the discussions do not have to prove anything in the facts, but only side. What has been lacking in these days, as always, was the ability to feel pain. The pain of a father. The pain of a family. The "pain" of a woman's property for years and in an irreversible condition, which his father had left a will. And even people who knew her and who do not know Beppino, now, that will bring into doubt. And little or no respect for law. Even when this law shall be deemed not shared by their own morality, and because it is a right you can exercise or not. This is the wonder of democracy. I understand the desire to deter people or trying to convince them not to take advantage of that right, but not to deny the same right. The show itself has given Italy in the world is to a country that has speculated sull'ennesima each other. Many politicians have, once again, used the event to try to aggregate Englaro consent and distract public opinion in a country that is crippled by the crisis, and where the crisis is allowing criminals to devour capital banks, where salaries are blocked and there seems no solution. But that's another story. And in a moment of crisis, of sentences granted, a little respect, Beppino Englaro gave strength and meaning to the Italian institutions and the possibility that a national of our country, nevertheless, can still hope in the laws and justice. It would be nice if the ending of this painful history that could be in Italy tomorrow, thanks to the peaceful struggle of Beppino Englaro, each could decide whether, in the case of vegetative state, be kept alive by machines for decades or choose your own destiny without emigrating. This is Italy's right and empathy - which has already been discussed - that allows you to also respect and understand different choices from their own, an Italy that would be great to be recognized.
From "La Repubblica" - February 12, 2009
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