By striking down § 217 of the German Criminal Code, the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court made a landmark decision. It is rare for the decriminalisation of any kind of physician-assisted death to be effectuated by a court decision.1 And although the court leaves it to the lawgiver to design a full regulatory framework for the protection of the possibly affected rights, it binds that framework to some requirements, thereby virtually guaranteeing that it will, arguably, be the most liberal one in the world. It is true that the future German law will still not permit the active ending of a patient’s life on his explicit and serious request under any conditions (§ 216 German Criminal Code), as the present Dutch and Belgian laws do. But under these laws euthanasia is permitted only if the patient requests it in a voluntary and well-considered way, and is also in a state of unbearable suffering that can only be ended by death. The court, conversely, only wants to impose requirements on the patient’s request, not on his condition. The reason for restricting the requirements in this way is that the court finds the justification of physician assistance exclusively in the patient’s right to

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将协助自杀服务合法化：Bundesverfassungsgericht 2020 年 2 月 26 日，2BvR 2347/15

通过废除德国刑法第 217 条，联邦宪法法院第二参议院做出了具有里程碑意义的决定。法院裁决使任何类型的医生协助死亡非刑事化的情况很少见。 1 尽管法院将其留给立法者设计一个完整的监管框架来保护可能受影响的权利，但它具有约束力某些要求的框架，从而实际上保证它可以说是世界上最自由的框架。诚然，未来的德国法律仍然不允许在任何情况下（德国刑法第 216 条）根据患者的明确和严肃的要求主动结束其生命，就像目前的荷兰和比利时法律那样。但根据这些法律，安乐死只有在患者以自愿和深思熟虑的方式提出要求时才被允许，并且处于无法忍受的痛苦状态，只能以死亡来结束。相反，法院只想对患者的要求提出要求，而不是对他的病情提出要求。以这种方式限制要求的原因是法院认为医生援助的正当性完全在于患者有权获得