TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Assisted suicide in Italy: Constitutional right or wishful thinking?
JO  - BioLaw Journal
A1  - Casonato, C.
SP  - 147
EP  - 149
VL  - 2019
IS  - 2
N2  - The Italian Constitutional Court has surprised many commentators by mak-ing a provisional decision declaring the crime of assisted suicide unconstitutional, un-der certain conditions. Before officially striking down the article of the criminal code, however, the Court (following the Canadian example) gave the Parliament one year to enact a comprehensive law on the topic. The deadline is running out and the pic-ture is far from clear: given the complexity of the legal system and the inertia of the Parliament, the right of sick and suffering people to be aided in taking their life is like-ly to remain, at least for a while, wishful thinking. © 2019, University of Trento.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2284-4503
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -