Tuesday, December 15, 2020
At last there is some movement towards better choices in dying in a European country which is always slow to reform.
Austria’s Constitutional Court has issued two important decisions. It held
it unconstitutional to prohibit assisting suicide. According to the
Court’s press release:
At the request of several people affected, including two seriously ill
people, the Constitutional Court (VfGH) repealed the provision that
makes assisting suicide a criminal offense.
The phrase “or help him” in Section 78 of the Criminal Code is
unconstitutional. It violates the right to self-determination, because
this fact forbids any kind of assistance under any circumstances.
Read more here:
https://www.vfgh.gv.at/medien/VfGH__Es_ist_verfassungswidrig__jede_Art_der_Hilfe_zu.de.php