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

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.

In the black hole between Camus’s philosophical question and regionalised end-of-life care, all serious debate has vanished. What remains amidst Zaia’s volatility and the Church’s all-too-frequent ‘neither-nor’ stance?