{"id":3900,"date":"2020-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/a-note-by-dignitas-7\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:52:47","slug":"success-for-dignitas-at-the-constitutional-court-of-austria-the-prohibition-of-assisted-suicide-is-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/news\/success-for-dignitas-at-the-constitutional-court-of-austria-the-prohibition-of-assisted-suicide-is-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Success for DIGNITAS at the Constitutional Court of Austria: prohibition of assisted suicide is unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">On 11 December 2020 \u2013 just one day after the international day of human rights \u2013 the Austrian Constitutional Court in Vienna judged on the constitutional complaint against the prohibition of assistance in suicide and voluntary euthanasia; the case was initiated by DIGNITAS \u2013 To live with dignity \u2013 To die with dignity through the Vienna law firm ETHOS.legal: The prohibition of assistance in suicide (second fact of \u00a7 78 of the Austrian Criminal Code) is unconstitutional. With this judgment, the people of Austria finally receive the freedom of choice and the human right which they have been entitled to for a long time: to decide themselves on the time of end of their suffering and life and to make use of help of third persons, thus also professional help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/stories\/pdf\/medienmitteilung-11122020-e.pdf\" class=\"ek-link\">media release (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vfgh.gv.at\/medien\/VfGH__Es_ist_verfassungswidrig__jede_Art_der_Hilfe_zu.de.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"ek-link\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Facts and live-streaming video of the judgment (<\/span>Link, in German<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 11 December 2020 \u2013 just one day after the international day of human rights \u2013 the Austrian Constitutional Court in Vienna judged on the constitutional complaint against the prohibition of assistance in suicide and voluntary euthanasia; the case was initiated by DIGNITAS \u2013 To live with dignity \u2013 To die with dignity through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[535,540,499],"class_list":["post-3900","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-austria","tag-dignitas-en","tag-media-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}