Citation

Sartea C. Medicina e Morale 2019; 68(4): 437-454.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019)

DOI

10.4081/MEM.2019.590

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In July 2019 the Italian Committee for Bioethics approved and published an Opinion entitled "Bioethical reflections on medically assisted suicide". This paper, after a brief presentation of the institutional history of this document, seeks answers to some bioethical questions touched by the Opinion. What emerges is a critical reading that goes beyond individual questions (and especially the legal and juridical profiles involved), and refers to the need for a new meditation on the meaning of bioethics and its relationship with philosophical anthropology and identity issues. © 2018 Medicina e Morale. All rights reserved.

Language: it

Keywords

Suicide; Euthanasia; Self-determination; Therapeutic obstinacy; Italian committee for bioethics