Maurizio Cattelan, and Eluana

I don't think that crucifying a woman to a bed is Cattelan's way of making a reference to Eluana. Perhaps not even to the issue of euthanasia.
It is nevertheless remarkable how at this particular time, this work seems to radiate a different kind of energy. A stimulus that transports me into thinking that the ideas of crucifixion, mercy and confinement all belong exclusively to the catholic world. That these are this world's inventions, born by it's idea of suffering, guilt and privation. Born by it's delirious concept of life and it's obsessive fear of death.
It is the only way that one can attempt to understand the unyielding behavior with which the situation where a human being attached to a machine for 17 (seventeen) years has been defended and defined as 'life'. And to fear, even, that that dead body may die.
And it is only this world, with it's idea of freedom deprivation (an idea many centuries old) that is capable of delivering this delirious concept as: The Truth. The sole and unconditional truth that shall be imposed on others, that shall be persecuted with cultural and even political enthusiasm. Even if it means damaging the freedom of a family, the dignity of the given person, and the conscience of an entire country.
You, from this world, are free to cultivate this idea of yours as to what life is, as to who or what gives life, to nurture the ideas of pain and death, and your idea to expiate the guilt you are born with through suffering. We, are not interested in these ideas of yours. Crucifixion does not belong to us. And we don't want it to belong to our children either.