Assisted suicide is the subject of much debate throughout the world. In Italy, on 24 September 2019, the Italian Constitutional Court legitimised assisted suicide under certain conditions: self-determination capacity, irreversible illness and intense physical/psychological suffering of the patient. This historic judgement surely paved the way for an evolution of the Italian legal framework on the matter but also raised some challenging medico-legal and bioethical questions. This study aims at analysing two of the most controversial among them: the inclusion of psychiatric patients among eligible patients for assisted suicide and the position of physicians related to their right to conscientious objection.

Medico-legal and bioethical perspectives following the constitutional legitimacy of assisted suicide in Italy / Cioffi, Andrea; Bersani, Giuseppe; Rinaldi, Raffaella. - In: THE MEDICO-LEGAL JOURNAL. - ISSN 0025-8172. - 88:3(2020), pp. 151-154. [10.1177/0025817220923687]

Medico-legal and bioethical perspectives following the constitutional legitimacy of assisted suicide in Italy

Cioffi, Andrea;Bersani, Giuseppe;Rinaldi, Raffaella
2020

Abstract

Assisted suicide is the subject of much debate throughout the world. In Italy, on 24 September 2019, the Italian Constitutional Court legitimised assisted suicide under certain conditions: self-determination capacity, irreversible illness and intense physical/psychological suffering of the patient. This historic judgement surely paved the way for an evolution of the Italian legal framework on the matter but also raised some challenging medico-legal and bioethical questions. This study aims at analysing two of the most controversial among them: the inclusion of psychiatric patients among eligible patients for assisted suicide and the position of physicians related to their right to conscientious objection.
2020
italian legalisation of assisted suicide; suicide; capacity; irreversible illness; physician-assisted dying; psychiatry; self-determination; suffering
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Medico-legal and bioethical perspectives following the constitutional legitimacy of assisted suicide in Italy / Cioffi, Andrea; Bersani, Giuseppe; Rinaldi, Raffaella. - In: THE MEDICO-LEGAL JOURNAL. - ISSN 0025-8172. - 88:3(2020), pp. 151-154. [10.1177/0025817220923687]
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