Scelte terapeutiche e protezione degli interessi esistenziali del minore nella relazione di cura e nel fine vita.

Alessandra Pisu

2019-01-01

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Abstract

The legal status of a minor – as a person who is legally incapacited to act but is also progressively able to understand – about treatments and therapeutic choices for himself/herself, shows all the complexity of a status which is the object of a profound rethinking since a long time. The issues about health, end of life, and the minor's existential interests gives rise to decision-making proceedings which involve a plurality of parties and aim to optimize the ability to understand and the ability to choose of the rights owner. On the background of the legislative subject and the jurisprudential actions, aimed to resolve the disputes that may arise among the parties called to express themselves with and for the minor, there is the clause of the 'best interest of the child' about which it is necessary to consider its significance and function in the light of the parameters for its realization with respect for the person's health, life and dignity.