Luís Fonseca

Full work available on:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KZaDYOU0qBb3z9j-1LLyoG8is6LYMwEp/view?usp=sharing   Introduction: Euthanasia is an ancient theme that, especially since individual autonomy became the healthcare paradigm in contemporary societies, has sparked profound reflections and declared dissensions between different socio-ideological quadrants. The experience of the countries where it is decriminalised shows a tendency to broaden the clinical, age and legal assumptions for its access. People in mental distress due to a psychiatric illness are now able to request physician-assisted death in some jurisdictions. Now, given the impossibility of identifying an incurable or irreversible injury through ancillary diagnostic tests and the fact that psychiatric disorders demand complex and holistic treatments (not always available), where psycho, social and familial approaches assume particular and decisive relevance, it is difficult to determine that a disease is incurabl...