Overview

• On July 21, 2025, the 50-year-old Perugia journalist self-administered a lethal dose at home, ending her life under Italy’s 2019 Constitutional Court framework.
• She endured a two-and-a-half-year struggle, including a complex civil and criminal judicial process, before ASL Umbria 1 granted approval in June 2025.
• Medical and nursing volunteers assisted her procedure, marking the first assisted death in Umbria and the ninth under the country’s ad hoc protocols.
• Her farewell letter emphasized patient autonomy, asserting that only those enduring intolerable suffering should decide when to end their lives.
• Advocacy groups and patients cite her case to renew pressure on lawmakers to enact a unified national end-of-life law following fragmented regional regulations.