*11.3.1 Austria*

In 2020 Austria's constitutional court ruled that banning assisted suicide violated fundamental rights. Effective in January 2022, two doctors review each case (one must be a palliative care physician), and a 12-week waiting period applies unless the patient is terminal. Austria reported 1160 suicides in 2019, 68 fewer than in 2018. Of those, 907 were men, 253 were women, making suicide the leading causes of unnatural death in Austria.
