Editing Assisted suicide (section)

===Portugal===
The Law n.º 22/2023, of 22 May,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://diariodarepublica.pt/dr/detalhe/lei/22-2023-213498831 |title=Law n.º 22/2023, of 22 May, published in the Diário da República, n.º 101, of 25 May 2023, in Portuguese, retrieved 25 May 2023. |access-date=14 January 2024 |archive-date=16 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216144121/https://diariodarepublica.pt/dr/detalhe/lei/22-2023-213498831 |url-status=live }}</ref> legalized physician-assisted death, which can be done by physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. Physician-assisted death can only be permitted to adults, by their own decision, who are experiencing suffering of great intensity and who have a permanent injury of extreme severity or a serious and incurable disease.

The law is not yet in force, because the government has to regulate it first. It states in Article 31 that the regulation must be approved within 90 days of the publishing of the law, which would have been 23 August 2023. However, the regulation has not yet been approved by the government. According to Article 34, the law will only enter into force 30 days after the regulation is published. On 24 November 2023, the Ministry of Health said the regulation of the law would be the responsibility of the new government elected in the [[2024 Portuguese legislative election|10 March 2024 elections]].<ref name="Observador"/>