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Primeras consideraciones a la Ley Orga?nica 3/2021, de 24 de marzo, de regulación de la eutanasia. el reconocimiento de un nuevo derecho
2021
The aim of this paper is to carry out a brief study of the recent Organic Law 3/2021, of March 24, on the regulation of euthanasia (BOE. March 25, 2021) approved in Spain, from a constitutional perspective, highlighting its main aspects. The matter under study is not exempt from controversy because it covers legal, medical and ethical considerations of great complexity.
Brevi note comparatistiche in tema di suicidio assistito
2019
The essay focuses on the legitimacy of assisted suicide in Italy and in England and Wales, particularly with regard to patients suffering from severe pain from incurable or terminal illnesses. In two recent cases (Cappato and Nicklinson), both Italian and English judges suggested to the Parliament to modify the current state of the law, without making a declaration of incompatibility with Article 8 of the Convention. The paper compares the approach of Corte Costituzionale and UK Supreme Court to the issue, revealing the ambiguity hidden behind those common decisions.
Il fine vita e il legislatore pensante. Il punto di vista dei comparatisti - Parte II
2021
The essay deals with the theme of the end of life within the Italian legal system in comparison with that of other foreign legal systems. In particular, the research addresses the issue of the precautionary tools that the civil process offers to those who ask to end their own life, in the absence of intervention by the competent authorities.
Il fine vita e il legislatore pensante: I minori e la volontà di farla finita
2021
The essay explores the possibility that, in the future, Italian law might consider children and adolescents as subjects eligible to controversial practices such as euthanasia or assisted suicide, widening the limits drawn by the Constitutional Court in the sentence n. 242/2019. The national and European legal frameworks allow estimating, under a comparative perspective, the low probability that such legislation will be enacted in Italy
Il consenso informato ai trattamenti sanitari sui minori e decisioni di fine vita. Riflessioni comparatistiche
2019
The essay deals with the informed consent to allow or to refuse medical treatment for pediatric patients, in a comparative law perspective. The first part focuses on the principle of personal autonomy and the rights to health and to life for patiens who lack capacity, as enshrined in Italian legislation. In determining care and treatment in relation to their child, parents have to take into account the physical and mental well-being, life and dignity of the person, as fully as possible (art. 3, L. 219/2017). The second part of the paper investigates the consequences of parents' refusal to interrupt or continue life-sustaining treatment in relation to infants suffering from serious and incur…
Cilvēka dzīvības radīšanas un pārtraukšanas bioētiskie aspekti
2005
Le necessarie tutele (e i relativi controlli) in ordine al processo di formazione della volontà di morte
2023
The article examines the legislative proposal on medically assisted death by the working group 'Per un diritto gentile', reviewing its contents through the lens of ECHR case law and the Spanish Ley Orgánica de regulación de la eutanasía. The comparative analysis sheds light on the need for additional safeguards to protect patients' autonomy and ensure that medical professionals comply with their informed, free from any pressure or abuse will.
La morte medicalmente assistita tra regolamentazioni nazionali europee e prospettive legislative italiane
2021
The essay focuses on the different legislative rules which allow seriously ill patients to legally receive euthanasia or assisted suicide in Europe to examine the Italian legislation currently being approved on the same matter from a comparative legal perspective. The research about such an ethical theme involving several fundamental principles, like human dignity, life and solidarity, analyses the approaches of the Belgian, Dutch, Luxembourg and Spanish legal systems. The study will shed light on the essentiality of some preventive safeguards to support patients��� autonomy in consenting or refusing an end-of-life treatment, in line with the Italian Constitutional Court suggestions.
Attitudes Among Patients With Advanced Cancer Toward Euthanasia and Living Wills
2015
Euthanasia has been invariably discussed throughout Europe. In some countries, euthanasia has been legalized under specific conditions that must be fulfilled. These include a properly reported request to be considered carefully, unbearable suffering, no other reasonable alternatives, and a consultation with an independent physician. A living will, also called an advance directive, is a written document that allows a patient to give explicit instructions about medical treatments to be administered when the patient is terminally ill and unable to communicate. In Italy, euthanasia remains illegal, and living wills are not used. These issues have been the subject of constant debate.2 Such discu…
Do bank voles (Myodes glareolus) trapped in live and lethal traps show differences in tick burden?
2020
In studies assessing tick abundance, the use of live traps to capture and euthanize rodent hosts is a commonly used method to determine their burden. However, captive animals can experience debilitating or fatal capture stress as a result prior to collection. An alternative method is the use of lethal traps, but this can potentially lead to tick drop-off between the time of capture and collection. In this study, in order to determine whether subjecting animals to capture stress is inevitable, we tested the difference in sheep tick (Ixodes ricinus) larval burdens between bank voles (Myodes glareolus) captured alive and euthanized, and lethally trapped bank voles. During 2017 and 2018, 1318 b…