14 Sep assisted suicide and the right to die
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The offense of assisted suicide (art. 580 c.p.) It is not unconstitutional, the working and the protection of the right to life, especially of people who could be induced to an extreme and irreparable chosen by conditions of weakness and vulnerability. These protection requirements are less, however, in cases where it is already acknowledged the right to let die by refusing life-sustaining treatments. On the subject capable of self-determination, dependent on such treatments, and it is also suffering from an irreversible disease, source of unbearable suffering and not lenibili, It must therefore be given the option of receiving aid in dying (Constitutional Court Order. 207/18).