Thus the Supreme Court, in the aforementioned ruling No.
23707/2012, confirms that, in the case in question (concerning a
request on the part of a woman to appoint in advance a support administrator
indicated by herself in an authenticated private document to
act as a guarantor for the safeguard of the advance health care directives
set out), the intervention of the designated support administrator,
albeit within the limitations that apply to the sphere of very personal
rights, is bound by the indications expressed by the subject when
sound of mind, and he has the power and the duty to express them,
without being required to reconstruct the patient’s wishes through acts
and/or deeds performed when in sound mind, and stresses that the
legal system and jurisprudence not only at national level display an ever more strongly felt focus on the protection of the complete individual
and on respect for his wishes