Multiple sclerosis sufferer takes own life in Italy's 17th assisted suicide

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 22 - A 55-year-old man suffering from multiple sclerosis committed medically assisted suicide in the northern region of Lombardy on May 18, the right-to-die Luca Coscioni Association said on Thursday. It is Italy's 17th case of assisted suicide. The association said the man had been suffering multiple sclerosis since 1999. Several people have been helped to commit assisted suicide in Italy by the Coscioni association, which previously took the terminally ill to the Dignitas...

By ANSA