Although it emerges from recent jurisprudence that it is possible to
find in Italian legal system the prerequisites and the instruments
required for the recognition of previously expressed wishes, even by
means of the mechanism of support administration, there are some
authors, who,40 while acknowledging that there is no lacuna in absolute
terms from a legislative point of view, do not exclude the appropriateness
of a legislative intervention that would establish a connection
with the mechanism for support administration by setting out the formal,
substantive requirements for these advance manifestations of
wishes to be valid and identifying the subject who is legally obliged to
interact with healthcare staff so as to respect the wishes of the individual
concerned.