Reflections about recent questions relational to human dignity and the end of life
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https://doi.org/10.18593/ejjl.23784Keywords:
End of life, Human dignity, Assisted suicide, EutanásiaAbstract
The essay analyses the main new issues connected to human dignity and end of life in the Italian and European constitutional systems. The Author studies the chronology of doctrinal and jurisprudential evolutions on the matters of euthanasia (passive and active) and assisted suicide in the multilevel system of protection of rights. The issues are contextualized in the relevant constitutional framework. The Author analyses the current legislation and recent reforms regulating end of life. Lastly, the Author analyses the decision of the Constitutional Court in the “Cappato case” and the potential evolutions that it will promote in the Italian constitutional system with regard to the legitimization of some forms of “active euthanasia”.
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