PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Matteo Gulino AU - Giacomo Frati AU - Gianluca Montanari Vergallo AU - Paola Frati TI - Mario Monicelli's <em>Grande Guerra</em>: the right of living and the choice of dying AID - 10.1136/jme.2011.042267 DP - 2011 Sep 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 573--576 VI - 37 IP - 9 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/37/9/573.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/37/9/573.full SO - J Med Ethics2011 Sep 01; 37 AB - Monicelli's suicide has reawakened a political and legal dispute about the medical role in end-of-life decisions, allowing us to discuss medical, ethical, legal, religious and political debate in various paradigmatic conscious and unconscious cases of end-of-life decision. We analyse the uncertainty about the ‘a priori’ choice between different specific legislative systems, highlighting the need for a unifying model, dictated by the existing trust in the critical relationship between patient and doctor, whose primary mission should be not only ‘to cure’ but also ‘to care’.