The Italian government on Friday
issued a legal challenge to a law passed by the Tuscany region
in March regulating end-of-life issues, the first of its kind in
Italy.
Tuscany's centre-right opposition has already appealed against
the law that made the central region the first Italian region to
approve assisted suicide.
Tuscany Governor Eugenio Giani has said that Tuscany will not
become the new Switzerland and that strict markers laid down by
the Constitutional Court in 2019 will be respected.
The requirements outlined in the 2019 sentence included the
presence of an irreversible pathology, unbearable physical or
psychological suffering and the patient's reliance on treatments
of vital support, among others.
The court also called on parliament to pass legislation dealing
with end-of-life issues, something that it has failed to do so
far.
The parties on the right of Italy's political spectrum are
opposed to moves to make assisted suicide easier.
On Friday for the first time a person committed assisted suicide
Several people have already been helped to die in Italy by the
right-to-die Luca Coscioni Association, which previously only
took the terminally ill to the Dignitas Clinic near Zurich to
end their lives.
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