sentences:  Piergiorgio Welby
  
  Piergiorgio Welby (Rome, 26 December 1945 - 20 December 2006) was an Italian poet, painter and activist whose three-month-long battle to establish his right to die led to a debate about euthanasia in his country.Welby was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy as a teenager in the early 1960s.