Overview

• Laura Santi, 50, died on July 21 in Perugia after self-administering a lethal dose provided by ASL Umbria 1 under its assisted-suicide framework
• She secured final approval and ethics-committee clearance in June after two and a half years of appeals, two denials and formal legal warnings
• In a posthumous video to parliament, Santi urged lawmakers to reject the current draft bill as exclusionary and adopt humane end-of-life legislation
• Italy relies on Constitutional Court ruling 242/2019 instead of specific legislation, resulting in patchwork regional protocols and hundreds of patients awaiting access
• A draft parliamentary bill remains pending amid political, religious and ethical debates that have delayed a unified national end-of-life statute