ROME, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- The prosecutor-general of the highest Italian court urged its members Tuesday to allow a woman in a coma for 16 years to be removed from life support.
Eluana Englaro, now 35, was 19 when she suffered brain damage in a car crash. Lawyers for her father, Beppino Englaro of Milan, said that the court should follow Prosecutor-General Domenico Ianelli's guidance, the news agency ANSA reported.
"It's time to let Eluana die," said one lawyer.
An appeals court in Milan ruled recently in Englaro's favor, but prosecutors there appealed to the Court of Cassation.
Englaro argues that his daughter said she would not want to be kept on life support if she was in a vegetative state. He also fears she would not receive proper care after he dies.
In a number of television appearances, he has said that Eluana has been forced to remain physically alive in an "inhumane and degrading condition."
