Slovenia will join several other countries that have legalized practices, including Australia and Belgium.
Slovenian parliament passed a law that grants terminal adults the right to end their lives after the majority of voters supported the move in a referendum.
Lawmakers approved the bill on Friday, endorsing 50 votes and approved 34 votes and three abstentions against 34 people. This means that all treatment options are allowed to die in cases of exhausted and unbearable distress.
According to Slovenian STA news agency, the right to die is not available in cases of unbearable suffering caused by mental illness.
It is expected to take effect in the coming weeks.
In a referendum last year at the talks, 55% of Slovenians voted in favor of assisting suicide assisted. Opponents of the law may try to garner sufficient support to force another referendum.
The national Medical Ethics Committee said this week that despite several amendments when it passed Parliament, the bill remained firm in its position to take high ethical risks.
Teleza Novak, a lawmaker for the Freedom of Governance Movement who supported the bill, told Congress that he had “rights.” [to assisted dying] It does not represent a medical defeat.”
“If medicine takes away people’s right to die if they want, and drugs can’t help them, that would be wrong,” the liberal lawmaker said.
The conservative Slovenian Democrats (SDS) have denounced the bill, saying it “opens the door to a culture of death, a loss of human dignity, and minimizing the value of the most vulnerable people.”
This vote means that Central European countries will join several other countries and allow terminally ill people to receive medical assistance to end their lives, including in several states in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium and the United States.
Last month, the UK Parliament voted to legalize deaths of aid deaths, but the bill still has to clear the upper chambers of Parliament.
