Vatican Official Recalls Impact of Eluana Englaro's Death
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February 11, 2010 (CNA)
A year after the death of, known as Italy's Terri Schiavo, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life is
Eluana Englaro
encouraging Catholics to defend life "from conception to natural death."
Recalling the case of 38-year-old Englaro, whose feeding tube was removed after being in a coma for 17 years, Archbishop Rino Fisichella told the magazine "Il Sussidiario" that the painful incident "tore our social fabric, especially because the people were not properly informed."
The Englaro case, he continued, was "a very sad page in our history: a girl who was seriously ill, but alive was deprived of nourishment - she was dehydrated and exposed.
"Contrary to what was reported, it led to great suffering and death."
