Il senso della fine: Eubiosia e traduzione interculturale tra accompagnamento, morte e commiato

This article approaches dying, rather than death alone, as a problem of intercultural legal translation. Drawing on Mario Ricca’s paradigm and his critique of semantic objectivism, it reconstructs eubiosia as a normative ecology of dying: neither a substantive conception of the ‘good death’ nor a new subjective right, but a systematic category through which palliative care, the care relationship, shared care planning, advance directives, spiritual support and continuity of care can be read as parts of a single legal architecture. Dignity is reformulated through Ricca’s account of agentive-generative dignity: dignity operates as a translational interface, while eubiosia identifies the clinical, relational, spatial and symbolic conditions that allow the person to remain an agent in the production of meaning. Ivo Quaranta’s medical anthropology further supports the claim that palliative medicine is structurally intercultural. On this basis, the article develops the notions of semantic misalignment and semantic cost, clarifying their role in fact construction and, where the applicable legal framework calls for it, in necessity and proportionality analysis. As the subject’s ability to correct others’ interpretations decreases or disappears, accompaniment develops into interpretive caregiving: a relational function aimed at preventing interpretation from becoming substitution. The inquiry then extends to the body, religious and non-religious farewell, Italian funerary law and digital traces, and concludes with a proposal for a Charter of Eubiosia and intercultural accompaniment.