Govt challenges Tuscany law on end-of-life issues Central region first in Italy to OK assisted suicide

The Italian government on Friday issued a legal challenge to a law passed by the Tuscany region in March regulating end-of-life issues, the first of its kind in Italy.
Tuscany’s centre-right opposition has already appealed against the law that made the central region the first Italian region to approve assisted suicide.
Tuscany Governor Eugenio Giani has said that Tuscany will not become the new Switzerland and that strict markers laid down by the Constitutional Court in 2019 will be respected.
The requirements outlined in the 2019 sentence included the presence of an irreversible pathology, unbearable physical or psychological suffering and the patient’s reliance on treatments of vital support, among others.
The court also called on parliament to pass legislation dealing with end-of-life issues, something that it has failed to do so far.
The parties on the right of Italy’s political spectrum are opposed to moves to make assisted suicide easier.
On Friday for the first time a person committed assisted suicide Several people have already been helped to die in Italy by the right-to-die Luca Coscioni Association, which previously only took the terminally ill to the Dignitas Clinic near Zurich to end their lives.