Italy Constitutional Court Approves Medical Aid in Dying

In 2014, a traffic accident left 37-year-old music producer and motocross driver Fabiano Antoniani both tetraplegic and blind. In 2017, Marco Cappato drove Antoniani  to Switzerland where he was helped to die.

A Milan court has been trying Cappato on the criminal charge of "instigating or assisting suicide." But Italy's Constitutional Court has now clarified the governing law.

The Court ruled that anyone who "facilitates the suicidal intention" of a patient on life support who is also "suffering from an irreversible pathology" should not be punished under certain conditions.