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Twelve-year-old injured after jumping from window

A twelve-year-old girl is in a critical condition after throwing herself from the second-floor balcony of her home in the northern Italian city of Pordenone.

Published: 18 January 2016 13:47 CET
Twelve-year-old injured after jumping from window
The girl told police she was having trouble getting along with classmates. Photo: Luca Parioli

The girl left two suicide notes, one addressed to her classmates saying “now you’ll be happy” and the other asking her parents for forgiveness, Il Fatto Quotidiano reported.

The girl was found in the courtyard below by a neighbour.

She had been off sick from school for a week when her mother went into her room to give her an inhalation treatment, only to discover the room empty and the window wide open.

The girl, who was found conscious, told those paramedics and police first on the scene that she was having problems getting along with her classmates.

She is now in intensive care at Udine hospital with multiple fractures and possible spine injury.

Police are checking messages on her social media accounts to ascertain what might have triggered the suicide bid.

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Switzerland backs assisted suicide in prisons

Sick prisoners will be allowed to request assisted suicide in Switzerland although the modalities still have to be worked out, prison system officials said on Thursday.

Published: 7 February 2020 09:11 CET
Switzerland backs assisted suicide in prisons
Illustration photo: AFP

The issue has come to the fore following a request made in 2018 by a convict behind bars for life, which exposed a legal vacuum in a country that has long been at the forefront of the global right-to-die debate.

Switzerland's cantons, which implement prison sentences, have agreed “on the principle that assisted suicide should be possible inside prisons,” the Conference of Cantonal Departments of Justice and Police said.

Conference director Roger Schneeberger told AFP that there were still differences between cantons on how assisted suicides could be carried out in prisons and a group of experts would issue recommendations by November.

Swiss law generally allows assisted suicide if the person commits the lethal act themselves — meaning doctors cannot administer deadly injections, for example — and the person consistently and independently articulates a wish to die.

Organisations that support assisted suicide also apply their own procedures, which are more robust than the legal requirements and sometimes require the person who is requesting it to have a serious illness.

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