In a webinar, Henri de Soos, lawyer describes 2 methods employed to legalize euthanasia. The first one consists of multiplying the legislative proposals to stimulate a national debate and ultimately obtain a majority vote. The second method consists of obtaining a judgment from the constitutional court to oblige the government and the parliament to decriminalize euthanasia or MAD. It was implemented for the first time in Canada, then between 2019 and 2020 in Italy, Germany and Austria. In these 3 countries the judges have interpreted their constitution in a new sense and declared that henceforth, assisted suicide could not be prohibited. The parliaments concerned are thus obliged to create a mechanism to make this possible in the months to come.
