La Corte costituzionale, nel silenzio del legislatore, torna a pronunciarsi sulla fine della vita umana (nota a Corte cost., 18 luglio 2024, n. 135)

Di Arnaldo Morace Pinelli -
The Constitutional Court rejected the question of constitutional legitimacy of the art. 580 c.p., as amended by sentence no. 242/2019, with the aim of extending the cases of non-punishment of aiding suicide to patients to respect to whom only three of the four requirements identified by the 2019 and 2019 sentences exist (irreversible pathology, intolerable physical or psychological suffering and ability to take free and informed decisions), but defects, instead, the requirement of being kept alive by life-sustaining treatments.  In practice, the Court was asked to abandon the field of implementing the right to refuse treatment, recognized by the art. 32 of the Constitution, and to open the . . .