Tuscany becomes the first region to approve assisted suicide in Roman Catholic Italy

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With Tuscany, for the first time in Catholic Italy, a region has legalized euthanasia. Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government will take legal action against it.

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Rome, Feb. 13 - It was the year 2019 when a ruling by the Constitutional Court, sanctioning the illegitimacy of the current ban, made euthanasia legal even in Italy. A decision, however, never accepted by the parliament at the national level. It is therefore news in recent days that Tuscany will be the first region to regulate so-called assisted suicide. But can that of 'sweet death' be considered - in fact - really a right? The thorny and slipp…

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New Hampshire is debating legalized assisted suicide. Here’s how it’s worked out elsewhere. • New Hampshire Bulletin

Signs in the State House express support for the "New Hampshire End of Life Freedom Act." (Photo by William Skipworth/New Hampshire Bulletin)Lindsey Warren, of Coventry, Vermont, has helped many people end their lives using medical aid-in-dying drugs. “I’ve seen so many people happy and relieved that they have choice and dignity in the end of their life,” she said. “Everyone that I’ve worked with has been overjoyed that they made it to the day. …

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Tuscany is therefore the first region in Italy to regulate euthanasia in the absence of a national law.

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Tuscany becomes first region in Italy to approve assisted suicide law

Tuscany approved a bill regulating medically assisted suicide on Tuesday, making it the first Italian region to pass a right-to-die law in the absence of national legislation on the matter.

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Tuscany's initiative is based on a verdict by Italy's Supreme Court and the broad jurisdiction granted to the country's regions in matters of health and care.