Euthanasia and assisted suicide (la eutanasie e il suicidi assistût) are highly debated themes (a son temis cetant dibatûts) for matters of ethical nature (par cuistions di nature etiche). According to Catholic morality (daûr de morâl catoliche), euthanasia and assisted suicide are unacceptable (la eutanasie e il suicidi assistût a son inacetabii), because human life is sacred (parcè che le vite umane e je sacre) and only God has the right (e dome Diu al à il dirit) to bring it to an end (di puartâle insom).
According to the latest news (daûr des ultimis gnovis), a fifty-year-old Triestine woman (une femine triestine di cincuante agns) is dead (e je muarte) after having gone to Switzerland (dopo di jessi lade in Svuizare) to obtain assisted suicide (par otignî il suicidi assistût). The woman had been ill (la femine e je stade malade) with multiple sclerosis (di sclerosi multiple) for over twenty years (di passe vincj agns). She died (e je muarte) in a Swiss clinic (intune cliniche svuizare). / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.
Euthanasia and assisted suicide (la eutanasie e il suicidi assistût): how are they different? (cemût sono diferents?). Euthanasia is when a doctor (la eutanasie e je cuant che un miedi) gives a lethal drug (al da un farmac letâl) to bring to an end (par puartâ a fin) a patient’s life (la vite di un pazient). As for assisted suicide (par ce che al tocje il suicidi assistût), the patient takes the lethal drug himself (il pazient al cjol di bessôl il farmac letâl), provided by a doctor (proviodût di un miedi). In both cases (in ducj i doi câs), the goal is that of bringing to an end (l’obietîf al chel di puartâ insom) the patient’s life (la vite dal pazient), but who perfoms the final act (ma cui che al fâs l’at finâl) is different (al è diferent).
We can define like this (o podìn definî cussì) the word suicide in Friulian (la peraule suicidi par furlan): at di cui che si da la muart di pueste; which is to say (ven a stâi), word for word (peraule par peraule): act of him who gives himself death on purpose. A few examples (cualchi esempli): he attempted suicide (al à provât il suicidi); he tried to take his own life while he was in isolation for covid (al à cirût di gjavâsi la vite intant che al jere in isolament pal covid); the hypothesis of suicide has been ruled out (la ipotesi dal suicidi e je taiade fûr); he killed himself (si è copât); those prisoners did not kill themselves (chei presonîrs no si son copâts).
Below (chi sot), a Japanese samurai (un samurai gjaponês). He is armoured (al è coraçât) and armed (e armât):
As for seppuku (par ce che al tocje il seppuku), this act was a ritual suicide (chest at al jere un suicidi rituâl) by way of disembowelment (par mieç dal sbudielament), practised by a Japanese samurai (praticât di un samurai gjaponês) to preserve honour (par preservâ l’onôr). It was a voluntary act (al jere un at volontari), often carried out in the presence of witnesses (dispès fat in presince di testemonis), according to a strict protocol (daûr di un protocol rigorôs). In present-day Japan (tal Gjapon di vuê), seppuku is outlawed (il seppuku al è fûr leç).