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Following Tuscany, South Tyrol has approved physician-assisted suicide. The measure that the majority has submitted to the Council of Ministers requires a multidisciplinary commission comprising palliative care specialists, psychiatrists, anesthetists, psychologists, nurses, pharmacists, and forensic doctors to be responsible for evaluating each individual case. Furthermore, depending on the specific instance, the commission will include a physician who specializes in the condition of the person requesting physician-assisted suicide. Physician-assisted suicide has been legal in Italy since 2019 (for those who match specified criteria), owing to a Constitutional Court verdict. Despite this, implementing the decision to access the procedure remains difficult. And it is precisely in this unregulated region that the provincial government has chosen to intervene. The provision, according to the document, is intended to "define the procedures inherent in the procedure indicated by the Constitutional Court and, as a result, to eliminate any residual uncertainty and problems regarding the provision of a healthcare service divided into multiple phases, from the verification of conditions to the methods of self-administration of the drug that can guarantee a rapid, painless, and dignified death".
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