Veneto becomes fourth Italian region to approve end-of-life law

Veneto on Wednesday became Italy's fourth region to approve a law regulating end-of-life situations, after Tuscany, Sardinia and Emilia-Romagna, and the first run by a centre-right administration. The Veneto regional assembly approved the law, which sets out procedures and time frames for medically-assisted suicide in the region, with 32 votes in favour, 14 against and five abstentions. The right-to-die Luca Coscioni Association have helped several people to commit assisted suicide in Italy since a landmark 2019 ruling by the Italian supreme court that stated assisted suicide is legal in some cases. Before that it took the terminally ill people who wanted to end their lives to the Dignitas Clinic near Zurich. The supreme court ruling laid down strict markers on cases in which assisted suic