The pope's comments come weeks after campaigners in Italy launched a petition to reverse a law banning assisted suicide, making the country the latest in Europe to move toward legalizing the act.
to call the act a sign of"throwaway culture" that treats elderly populations as"disposable," in a recent interview.
"What is useless is discarded. Old people are disposable material; they are a nuisance. Not all of them, but of course, in the collective subconscious of the throwaway culture, the old, the terminally ill, and unwanted children, too; they are returned to the sender before they are born," the pope told COPE, a radio station owned by the Spanish bishops' conference, according to"This throwaway culture has marked us. And it marks the young and the old.
The petition was started to support the case of an Italian quadriplegic, identified as Mario, who asked doctors to end his life 10 years after he was left paralyzed by a car accident, according to Politico. In an open letter to Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza last month, Mario said he lived"in constantly increasing pain," adding that,"Just as I have the right to treatment, I have the right to end my suffering."
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