THE REFORM OF ARTICLE 143 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE BY THE ORGANIC LAW REGULATING EUTHANASIA, THE DEPENALIZATION OF EUTHANASIA, "AT LAST"?

The recently approved Organic Law, regulating euthanasia, proceeds to modify section 4 of article 143 of the Criminal Code, to which it also incorporates a new section 5 in which causation or active cooperation in the death of another is decriminalized person when it meets a series of requirements and the conduct is carried out following the procedure established in said Law. The importance of the terms in which this Law is drawn up, which are decisive for these conducts to leave the scope of the criminally relevant, make it essential, therefore, a detailed analysis of it.