Domenica 28 novembre 2010
Mario Melazzini ha partecipato questa mattina ad una trasmissione su Rai uno espressamente commissionata dalla parte politica cattolico integralista per rispondere a Fazio, Mina Welby e Beppino Englaro. Una trasmissione che ha contrapposto supposti fautori della vita a supposti fautori della morte. Quello che è intollerabile, per questi signori, è che per una volta si sia data voce ai deboli e i sofferenti allorquando, attraverso la propria storia personale, giungano a considerare la propria life no longer worth living. What is intolerable is that they also give space to these voices, finally trying to break a taboo always open to criticism.
Dr. Melazzini said he was offended by that show, blaming a "lack of knowledge and lack of listening", and thus attack who, on their skin, live a different reality, different beliefs and ages. I, too, medical and sick with ALS, I could say I feel just as offended by the misinformation that I heard speak this morning from a forum Rai. In almost two years of illness I knew the entire universe of patients, I can not think of is unknown to the President of main association that deals with ALS: is the small part of patients who chose not to let die, practicing tracheotomy and artificial ventilation, and the vast majority, those who reject the intervention mainly because they are forced, by the absence of State, to live in a state of neglect, as rightly pointed out Melazzini, but also a third party, that choice to those induced by the knowledge that they can not turn back, as will be dispossessed of the right of choice, aware that the informed consent to acts invasive medical applies only once. Speaking of listening skills and ignore the right of self to other means to oppose ill patients: no accident has spoken of the patient as "the bearer of need," to attend a patronizing to the point of deciding for him, while I speak of the patient as a person, as such, "the bearer of rights." And the right to receive appropriate treatment can not be separated from the freedom of choice.
In the afternoon, then aired the second episode, this time in "Sunday in the" where, silenced a lost Ignazio Marino, a gay cruise company cathode (plus Melazzini, the pro-life movement, the future , Senator, and Roccella philosopher pret-a-porter Stefano Zecchi) have closed the circle talking about denial of care, such as suicide and euthanasia were the same thing. No doubt about it: a clear exercise of intellectual honesty.
If they wanted to convince me that between secular state and Catholic fundamentalism there are issues that can not be open to negotiation, we are fully successful.
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