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The historic sentence of past February 29 by the German Constitutional Court recognized the right to self-determination of any individual at the end of his life and, to make it effective, the right to receive help. Consequently, the high court repealed article 217 of the penal code, passed in 2015, which prohibited “commercial” help for suicide, that is, organized and carried out by associations or physicians.
The German media reported that the Verein Sterbehilfe association—which advocates assisted suicide at the patient’s home—helped a 90-year-old man die last June at the nursing home where he lived, with the agreement of the institution management. The patient had been a member of the association for several years and, when his condition worsened, he consulted with the establishment management, which, given the new legal situation, authorized the assisted suicide to be performed inside its facilities.
Jakub Jaros, director of the Verein Sterbehilfe association, invites henceforth the residences and institutions that take in patients at the end of life to modify their regulations so that “the fundamental right to suicide and the right to assist the suicide—recognized in the recent sentence of the Constitutional Court—can be carried out unrestrained”.
An intense debate is taking place in Germany with the participation of jurists, doctors and associations who, on the one hand demand to allow the exercise of the constitutional right to self-determination at the end of life as widely as possible, and on the other those would like to regulate it in a more restrictive way. The current minister of health of the CDU is among the latter.
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