End of Life Bioethics, Biolaw, and the Theological Dimension

End of Life: Bioethics, Law and Theology - Preview of the Nola Conference Description: On November 21, 2025, I will be speaking at the conference "End of Life between Bioethics, Biolaw and Theological Dimension" organized in Nola (Italy) by UGCI, AMCI and Scuola Bruniana. In this podcast preview, I present the critical issues of my speech: The fracture between feeling and reason: Leopardi contrasted the poetic voice (which sees death as a transition to the divine) with cold rationality. Today, death is reduced to a clinical fact: cessation of brain functions, ASL procedures, lethal drugs. In Italy, 15 people have obtained assisted suicide since 2019. But if it's a right, why ask the community to provide means and assistance? The role of Local Health Authorities and Ethics Committees: After the Cappato ruling, Italian health authorities authorize assisted suicide through Territorial Ethics Committees. Two women from Campania with ALS have just received approval. But who controls these bodies? With differentiated autonomy, will each Region have different rules on death? The crossroads of Ethics Committees: Who are the bioethics experts who decide? Are philosophical or theological studies enough? The risk is perpetuating ideological oppositions instead of dialogue. The crucial question: Is providing lethal drugs assistance to a right or complicity with unheard despair? If those who ask to die do so because palliative care, pain therapy, and psychological support are lacking, shouldn't we first revise the care system? I don't offer easy answers, but questions we can no longer avoid. In an age that has emptied death of religious meaning, we must at least prevent it from becoming the last, definitive loneliness. Listen to the preview and follow me at the November 21 conference in Nola.