(Switzerland) Aided suicide in question after botched diagnosis (x-post from GD)
Aided suicide in question after botched diagnosis
An Italian magistrate was not gravely ill as he was told before he went to Switzerland for an assisted suicide, an autopsy has revealed.
“The scientific error pushed him to seek the help of the clinic in Basel,” Roccisano said.
Pietro D’Amico, a 62-year-old magistrate from Calabria in southern Italy, ended his life at a clinic in Basel in April.
The father-of-one took the decision after a wrong diagnosis from Italian and Swiss doctors, his family's lawyer Michele Roccisano told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
An autopsy carried out by the University of Basel’s Institute of Forensic Medicine found that D’Amico was not suffering from a life-threatening illness at the time of his death.
http://www.thelocal.ch/20130711/assisted-suicide-in-question-after-botched-diagnosis