In a judgment of 22 November, the Constitutional Court of Italy has established that, in certain conditions, a patient subjected to unbearable suffering can be helped to die, and that this aid must be provided by the National Health System.
Meaningthe website of Luca Coscioni you can read more about this case.
For instance a paper about this case (in Italian). We made a translation of this paper to English.
Official Court publications
16 November 2018
– Order 207/2018 (Italian / English)
– Press release: Punishability of suicide help: the discipline to the legislator of limits. (Italian / English)
25 September 2019
– Press release: Waiting for the parliament, consultation is pronounced on end of life (Italian / English)
22 November 2019
– Sentence 242/2019 (Italian / English)
– Press release: End of life: When suicide help is not punishable (Italian / English)