According to Palazzo Chigi, the regional law has infringed upon a number of areas falling within the exclusive competence of the state, delegating the definition of a series of requirements to regional guidelines, thereby circumventing the constraints imposed on this point by the Constitutional Court

For the first time in Italy, ten doctors are under investigation for failing to allow a terminally ill patient to undergo assisted suicide in 2023; however, the investigation is based on an interpretation provided by the Constitutional Court only in 2024, that is, after the woman had already died

For some time now, we have been witnessing a shift in palliative care, or at least in part of it. The ‘palliative care movement’ has always embodied the spirit of a middle way between euthanasia and unreasonable obstinacy – that form of support which should never have meant ‘pushing towards death’. Today, this is no longer the case   

In the Sicilian Regional Assembly, Forza Italia has tabled a regional bill that even the PD supports. The Lega is showing openness and looking to what has happened in Veneto. And even from FdI, there are signs of a glimmer of hope.

The regional president and Luca Zaia’s successor, Alberto Stefani, had promised the Patriarch of Venice and Salvini’s party that he would stand firm. In the end, the end-of-life bill was passed, and within the party there is talk of a ‘U-turn’. 

Despair, loneliness and the feeling that ‘we can’t cope’ lie outside this scope – a scope of attention and resolve. Often, this is also due to the misguided prejudice of those who believe that, in the decision to take one’s own life, that feeling of ‘we can’t cope’ has nothing to do with it.