Silvio Berlusconi - who argued that the fertility of comatose Eluana Englaro was justification for keeping her alive - has responded to Englaro's death by accusing Italy's more empathetic president of "murder". [Times of London]

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38 year old Eluana Englaro of Italy has been in a coma for the past 17 years. Her family is now attempting to pull her feeding tubes, but the Italian government is not allowing it.