Legalize Voluntary Death Act
SECTION I: Definitions1. Informed consent shall be defined as the free and conscious decision of a person in full use of his faculties after receiving the adequate information to receive an assisted death.
2. A chronical severe disability shall be defined as a situation that produces in a person a general inability to function independently, without healing possibilities and with a high probability of the situation persisting for the remainder of the person's natural life
3. A severe, uncurable and terminal disease shall be defined as a disease which originates physical and psychological suffering, without the possibility of tolerable relief and with a limited life prognosis.
SECTION II: Assisted death1. Citizens and legal residents in Atlasia shall have the right to request and receive help for an assisted death when a number of requirements are met.
2. The decision to request help for a voluntary death shall require the informed consent of the patient.
SECTION III: Requirements to request an assisted death1. In order to request an assisted death the following requirements shall be met by the patient:
a) Being a citizen or legal resident of Atlasia, above the age of 18
b) The patient must be examined and considered mentally sound by a certified psychiatrist
c) Having received information regarding the process and regarding the different alternatives and possibilities, including but not limited to palliative care
d) Formulating the petition for an assited death, which shall be repeated at least once more no less than 15 days after the original request, and which shall not be signed by the patient as a result of external pressure.
e) The patient shall be suffering from a severe, uncurable, and terminal disease or have a chronical severe disability, as established in Section I
2. Alternatively, patients which due to their medical situation are unable to give informed consent may be given an assisted death if they had previously specified as part of their last will that they wanted to receive said assisted death when they found themselves suffering from a situation where they would be unable to become conscious and able to give informed consent again.
SECTION IV: Rights and duties of doctors regarding an assisted death1. Doctors shall discuss with the patient his diagnosis, therapeutical possibilities, expected results and paliative care possibilities
2. Doctors shall verify that the request is done voluntarily, without external pressures and is expressed clearly.
3. Doctors shall verify that the patient fulfills all the requirements described in section III
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Doctors shall administer the assisted death with the maximum care and professionality possible Doctors may prepare a lethal concoction for the patient to take, but may not carry out the death themselves.
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Doctors shall have the right to excersise a voluntary refusal to an assisted death procedure through a conscientious objection procedure. Doctors shall not be required to participate in any part of the assisted death process.
SECTION V: Payment and other economical effects1. Assisted death shall be included as part of the coverages of Atlascare. Part II, Section II of the Reforming and Regionalizing Public Healthcare Act of 2017 shall be amended accordingly
2. Assisted death shall be regarded as a natural death for all intents and purposes, including those related to life insurance
SECTION VI: Enactment1. This bill shall become enacted inmediately after being signed by the president or after his veto is overriden as specified by the Atlasian Constitution
