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euthanasia in Italy is currently illegal, but you can work around it by killing yourself. Federico Carboni (previously known with the code name "Mario") "techni
by ithkuil 4y ago
euthanasia in Italy is currently illegal, but you can work around it by killing yourself. Federico Carboni (previously known with the code name "Mario") "technically" killed himself using a drug and a special machine that costed 5k eu. A ruling of the constitutional court allowed this procedure to be supervised by a doctor and the money for the drug to be collected by an association helping the pro-euthanasia choice.
Now; with this loophole, is euthanasia to be considered legal?
The cost of the drug/machine, which albeit not impossibly high, is still perceived to be a high barrier to entry, in a country where healthcare is a right.
But if the cost issue is solved; would that mean that now the state is "euthanising the poor"?
- bitwize 4y agoThis is called physician-assisted suicide in the USA and it is legal in a few states. Famously, the controversy around the practice was stirred up in the 90s by Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who offered it as an option to some of his terminal patience in defiance of the laws at the time (for which he was convicted of murder).