ZURICH (Reuters) – Austria’s federal authorities has submitted a draft legislation to make assisted suicide for critically ailing adults authorized, the federal chancellery stated in an announcement on Saturday.
The brand new legislation lays out the circumstances below which assisted suicide will probably be attainable sooner or later, following a ruling by Austria’s Constitutional Court docket final December in keeping with which banning assisted suicide was unconstitutional as a result of it violated an individual’s proper to self-determination.
“Severely ailing folks ought to have entry to assisted suicide,” the federal chancellery stated within the assertion.
The brand new legislation permits chronically or terminally ailing adults to make provisions for an assisted suicide.
They should seek the advice of two medical doctors who should attest the individual is able to making his or her personal selections. A delay of 12 weeks additionally needs to be revered that may be lowered to 2 weeks for sufferers within the ultimate part of an sickness.
(Reporting by Silke Koltrowitz; Modifying by Christina Fincher)
