“I would like to say to politicians: I suffer in an unspeakable way, my body is only torment and you in Parliament are wasting your time. I ask you one thing only: get out of your selfishness, think of me and the many like me, help us to die”. This is the appeal launched by Antonio who, after Mario, is the second Italian forced to resort to the courts to see the right to be checked on his conditions in order to have access to assisted suicide, legalized by the Constitutional Court in the presence of four conditions. He is also a quadriplegic, for eight years and almost motionless from the trunk down, and resident in the Marche region. And like Mario, he must also undergo the judicial ordeal against the local health company, Asur, to benefit from a right. In fact, after having obtained at the end of January a decision from the Court of Fermo which ordered Asur Marche to carry out all checks as required by the Cappato sentence of the Constitutional Court, and after having undergone the meetings with the doctors, from the end of February he awaits the judgment of the Ethics Committee, the last step before being able to access legally medically assisted suicide. “My body is pure pain, I have no hope of improvement – says Antonio – I am a prisoner of a non-existence. For this I want to die. I suffer in an unspeakable way. My life no longer has dignity. When I realized that I would no longer improve. I decided to die. Two years ago. With the help of my family we built this house without barriers, with a gym, a terrace to breathe the air of the mountains. Today it is no longer enough. I want to be lucid until the last moment , for this reason I have refused the palliative care that cloud the thought “. Now he announces new legal initiatives together with the lawyer Filomena Gallo, national secretary of the Luca Coscioni Association. “It is unacceptable, despite the furrow traced by Mario, that the fundamental rights of a citizen depend on the inefficiency of the public administration which continues to prove to be in default – says Gallo – This happens in the absence of a law and a similar scenario could be repeated if it were to pass a discriminatory text of law such as the one currently approved in the Chamber “. “With Antonio – announces the coordinator of the team of his lawyers – we are about to notify Asur Marche another warning, the third since the beginning of his story to try to unblock the situation. In fact, since February the verification visits of the his condition, but the opinion of the Ethics Committee still does not arrive and Antonio continues to suffer, every day. And everything happens – underlines Gallo – while a text was approved in the Chamber which, if it were confirmed as it is in the Senate, would have serious discriminatory effects towards some patients: it excludes patients without life support even if with a poor prognosis and people who cannot self-administer the drug because they are completely immobile. Finally it requires the passage to palliative care, treatments that for example Antonio refuses “.