Italy adopts living wills allowing patients to refuse treatment

ITALY: Despite the churches neglecting, the Catholic government in Italy has moved a sanction bill for the patients to decide what medical treatment they receive or refuse— at the end of their life.

The church contends that the act is rather a suicide if the patient refuses life expectancy treatments, the Italian government has on another verge, endorsed patients that prefer to avoid treatments to lifelong fatal diseases or having severely troubled wounds.

According to the revised law, the government has allowed the doctors to halt treatments of unwilling patients that consent with death than recovery, setting the doctors free of responsibility. If they are not able to communicate, doctors will have to refer to the wishes set out in their "biological testament", or living will.

The Italian Senate approved the legislation on Thursday by 180 votes to 71, with six abstentions. Where, Gentiloni's Democratic Party (PD), backed by other parties on the left as well as the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), passed the measure despite opposition from the right, which claimed that it was the first step towards euthanasia.

The Bill also permits that the patients cannot only cut off from treatment, including the choice whether or not they want to be fed and hydrated artificially once they can no longer eat or drink by themselves..

Pope Francis is of the view that deceiving a patient to provide relief is wrong, while he also stressed that the doctors must keep from prescribing too many medicines to the patients.

“Determining the best course of action for a dying person requires interacting with the patient, the patient’s family and doctors, because “the mechanical application of a general rule is not sufficient,” he said in November.

"The senate has cleared the way for a civilized choice," wrote Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Twitter. "It's a step forward for human dignity,’ he maintained that the sanction would be the last throughout his leadership that ends by March with the upcoming elections.

'Worship of life' is a legal type of legal documents that are described in such patients as to how they want to treat, who are unable to speak. This law relies on several major European countries like Britain and Spain.