No to euthanasia, yes to palliative care but also a "space for seeking mediations on the legislative level." This is the position of the Pontifical Academy for Life expressed in a vademecum entitled "Small Lexicon of the End of Life". "Freedom therefore always implies the need to be responsible for life: in me and in the other, indissolubly. A perspective that certainly does not collide with an individualist conception, which tends to reduce it to the loneliness of absolute self-determination and yields to the will to power of self-love, without regard for the vulnerability to which it exposes the affections of the other. We are all radically related". These are the words of Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, in the introduction to the document, motivating the reasons for its publication. "Open and respectful discussion leads to a public dialogue capable of positively influencing political decisions as well, showing how mediations between different positions are not necessarily destined to assume the shoddy figure of a compromise on the cheap or negotiation for an exchange of political favors," it adds. The document, in summary, reiterates a clear rejection of euthanasia, as well as of therapeutic obstinacy, the revival of palliative care and "advance treatment arrangements," the so-called living will, the need to find, in democratic and pluralistic societies, "an acceptable point of mediation between different positions" regarding assisted suicide, and the possibility of suspending nutrition and hydration to dying patients.