Overview

• Ada, 44, was initially refused access to assisted suicide by her local health authority, which recognized only the irreversibility of her illness and said three other legal requirements were not met.
• Her lawyers, coordinated by Associazione Luca Coscioni’s Filomena Gallo, filed an urgent appeal to the Tribunal of Naples, which led to new medical evaluations whose results are pending.
• In a video message revealing her identity after previously using the name Coletta, her sister Celeste read her words because she can no longer speak due to rapidly progressing ALS.
• She said she declined PEG feeding, called imposed delays "another torture," and asked to secure the option of a dignified death near her family in Italy.
• Italy has no national assisted-dying law and access relies on Constitutional Court ruling 242/2019; the Luca Coscioni association says the Court will soon revisit disputes over the life-support dependence requirement.