The condition of constitutional lawyer Dániel Karsai, who is suffering from incurable ALS, is rapidly deteriorating. His brother, Péter Karsai on ATV Start’s Friday morning show he said that the constitutional lawyer does not want to be put on a ventilator, because he does not want only the machines to keep him alive.
Now he can only communicate with a few words, according to Péter Karsai, they haven’t talked about what will happen if he can’t do it anymore, but this moment will be inevitable. “And when the bridge comes across, we’ll cross it.”
When asked what would have been the bridge over which Dániel Karsai did not want to cross, his brother replied that they had already passed the points that the constitutional lawyer had previously said in a narrow family circle, aware of his illness, that he did not want to reach . Such was, for example, self-sufficiency, which Dániel Karsai previously said he did not want to need help with. “He’s a shy person, he’s climbed his own Mount Everest in this, and he’s been able to overcome these fears.” Now family, friends and specialist nurses help him 24 hours a day, about this photo report appeared on page 444.
“This also proves that there are previously unknown energy reserves for Dani, too,” he said.
The constitutional lawyer was diagnosed with ALS in August 2022. “I was a 90-kilogram healthy person, now I’m a 74-kilogram disabled person,” he said earlier in an interview with Telex. Dániel Karsai fights to end his life with dignity by his own decision.
ALS causes the nerve cells that move the muscles to atrophy, eventually leading to complete paralysis. At the end of the disease, respiratory functions also cease, and death occurs due to suffocation. However, the disease does not affect mental abilities.
Karsai also initiated a referendum in order to ensure that those terminally ill patients who, due to their condition, are experiencing suffering that is intolerable and incompatible with human dignity, can at least choose the time and manner of their death with dignity. His referendum question was rejected by the National Election Commission on the grounds that the right to life is inviolable, therefore the question cannot be submitted to a referendum. Against the rejection, the constitutional lawyer applied for a review, but the Court upheld the NVB’s decision. Karsai is now turning to the Constitutional Court, while waiting for the judgment of the Strasbourg court on the issue.
