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A first hurray for the extension of civil rights!

Within the month of March, our local authority must set up a registry for advance directives for treatment where citizens, if they want, they can indicate in advance the medical treatment that each intends to refuse (or receive) in case of incapacity or mental diseases that cause loss of consciousness. As we had already written in these pages, the so-called register for the living will is a cornerstone of the civil rights generation and , especially if read without ideological veils, represents a concrete extension of the freedom of all that is detrimental to anyone.

addition to establish the register, the agenda to be presented by the Left for San Casciano - SEL Democratic Party also wants the council to commit to an enhancement of the same. In particular, the text will extend the service of a notary that is common to free advice for your advice regarding the covenant of the end of life.

The next resolution of the City Council takes relief then even more important if it is engaged in the broader national policy framework. In recent weeks, the Chamber of Deputies is in fact discussing the draft law governing the "end of life." In spite of what the Constitution's Italian, by the Court of Fundamental Rights of the European Convention on human rights and bioethics of Oviedo and certain rulings of the Constitutional Court, the majority Berlusconi is trying to transfer the decision-making authority in this field by citizens to the doctors .

The position of our City Council can therefore also be viewed as a form of resistance to what Stefano Rodota has recently called the "despotism of ethics" that feeds "an authoritarian project.

What we hope to celebrate the establishment of the register of advance directives on end-life agenda is that the local extension of civil rights may soon touch the other two important issues: the registry of unmarried couples (not just sex) and the secular funeral .

concrete tools to enhance the rights and obscurantism of resistance have been important signs of democratic vitality from below.

Alberto Gherardini

Coordinator Ecology Freedom Circle Left

San Casciano Val di Pesa