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The Constitutional Court of Colombia on Thursday issued a judicial decision extending the cases in which euthanasia or assisted death - legal in the country since 1997- to include cases of non-terminal illnesses. With six votes in favour, the Court's full chamber decided to allow the fundamental right to die with dignity in a medically assisted form for non-terminal patients "provided that the patient is in intense physical or psychological suffering, resulting from bodily injury or serious and incurable illness."

Colombia was the first Latin American country to decriminalize euthanasia.

In December 2020, Austria's Constitutional Court ruled that the blanket ban on physician-assisted dying was unconstitutional as it violated the right to self-determination. It is expected that legislation will be introduced in advance of the existing law being repealed on 31 December 2021. On December 11, 2020, the Austrian Constitutional Court ruled that the prohibition of “helping people to commit suicide” violates the right to self-determination.