Lo statuto giuridico del fine vita tra giurisprudenza costituzionale e legislazione regionale

Abstract

The essay focuses on the last steps in defining the legal status of the end of life. In the silence of the Parliament, the gaps in the regulation have been filled by the Constitutional Court, which, with sentence no. 135 of 2024, set a further important step, proceeding by way of authentic interpretation of its own previous normative additions. The regulatory gap is at the basis of recent regional legislative initiatives on the subject, which have given rise to a doctrinal debate on the articulation of regulatory competences. After investigating what may be the space available to the Regions and what may be the space for intervention by the manipulative sentences of the Constitutional Court, the essay tries to highlight the enduring need for State legislation, which proceeds in the wake of the balance already traced out by the judge of the laws.