http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210323-031124-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/not-yet-but-soon/ Not Yet but Soon Violante, Teresa eng 2021-03-22 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 assisted death BVerfG Euthanasia Right to Life Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 29 January 2021, the Portuguese Parliament approved the decriminalization of active euthanasia and assisted suicide for adults in a situation of intolerable suffering, with a definitive injury of extreme gravity according to scientific consensus, or incurable and fatal disease. A ruling delivered on 15 March by the Constitutional Court halted this legal innovation and cut short on introducing the right to a self-determined death in the Portuguese legal order.