Eluana’s Last Hours – Temperature Rises, Then Heart Stops

RAI journalist says: “On Sunday, I went into her room. The impact was devastating. She was unrecognisable”

UDINE – “Monday afternoon, temperature rises. Mucous membranes dry. Nurses spray lips with water droplets”. A few hours later, she was dead. Eluana Englaro’s final hours are described in the “distress log” that for the last few days was part of her medical record. The file was opened in Lecco and closed at Udine, enclosing 17 years of vegetative state in a sheaf of papers, and the documents were with Eluana in the ambulance that brought her to Udine on her final journey. Eluana’s arrival time is recorded as 5.55 a.m. on 2 February. The medical record contains the discharge signed by her father Beppino, the clinical profile compiled by her neurologist, Carlo Alberto Defanti and the medical protocol signed by lawyers, doctors and nurses. This is the final phase of Eluana’s existence, all that is left of a life that was shattered against a lamppost to be patched together again in intensive care and eked out for 17 long years. The sisters must have looked after her like a daughter. It doesn’t say so in the file but it was clear from Eluana’s condition when she arrived at the La Quiete geriatric clinic.

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