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Feb 9, 2009, 19:36 GMT

Italian woman at centre of euthanasia row is dead (1st Lead)

Rome - Eluana Englaro, the comatose woman at the centre of a right-to-die debate in Italy, died Monday, Italy's Senate speaker said. Speaker Renato Schifani made the announcement during a parliament debate on a controversial government bill aimed at having a life support system reconnected to Englaro. The 38-year-old Englaro died shortly after 1900 GMT, television news channel Sky TG24 reported. 'We pray for her and ask forgiveness to the Lord for all they have done to her,' the Vatican's top health affairs official, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, was quoted as saying by the ANSA news agency. Englaro, who spent the last 17 years in a vegetative state after a car accident, has fuelled discussion in predominantly Catholic Italy over euthanasia and its legal technicalities. Her death came four days after doctors, acting on a court order, disconnected tubes supplying her body with nutrients and water. The news of her death prompted emotional scenes outside the La Quiete old persons' home in the north-eastern city Udine where she died. Some pro-life activists began chanting 'Murderers!' at a group of supporters of the decision by Eluana's father and legal guardian, Beppino, to allow his daughter to die.

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