Woman at centre of Italy’s euthanasia controversy dies
Health Minister Maurizio Sacconi made the announcement, carried on Italian television, to the Senate as the chamber began debate on controversial emergency legislation aimed at keeping Englaro alive.
Doctors in Udine, northeast Italy, stopped feeding the 38-year-old woman on Friday amid a flurry of efforts to keep her from dying, with conservative prime minister Silvio Berlusconi accused of politicising the affair.
