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The Bioethics Laboratory reaches its 11th edition. Over the years it has been proposed as a training opportunity on bioethical issues, in line with cultural changes and the evolution of society and medicine. 2020 and 2021 represented a complex phase also for the aspects related to the Coronavirus pandemic, with significant effects on the Health Organization, on operators and on citizens. All the more reason this year, the Laboratory aims to support the reading of socio-cultural contexts, critical reflection on care, as well as the evolution of legal thought and its determinations in the decisions of professionals. In the background, respect for “human dignity” remains the key principle for understanding people’s stories of life and illness, protecting them from the risk of an ideological reading. In particular, the incurability, once the reasonable therapeutic availabilities have ended, urgently calls into question the patient’s expectations and his autonomy for the last time of life, which are reflected in the proportionality and equity in the attention to the quality of life and death. , towards an appropriateness of care. Dr. Denis Caporale, General Manager of ASUFC: “Doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers who carry out their profession in health agencies, in health and social-health services, are increasingly faced with problems and dilemmas of a moral nature and manage choices that they touch on bioethical aspects “. The Laboratory is divided into two parts: the Basic Bioethics Laboratory on 12/13/14 September and the “Ethics and Spirituality” thematic unit on 20 September 2022 based in San Daniele at the Sala del Museo del Territorio. “The speakers of national significance” underlines Dr. Marina Barbo, Head of Training and Enhancement of the staff of ASUFC “are bioethical philosophers of the University of Padua, jurists of the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Udine and of the University of Trento and will present, on the one hand, reflections on the issues of language, clinical bioethics and the focus on the concept of human dignity and, on the other, the regulatory developments related to end-of-life issues and clinical choices of therapeutic withdrawal with reference to the Law 219/2017, addressing the issue of bioethics from a normative and sociological perspective with particular attention to the innovative aspects of bio-law. Finally, through the analysis of the direct experience of clinical cases, the professionals of both ASUFC and ASFO will deepen the communication and decision-making processes in the care relationship with particular attention to the clinical-ethical aspects of therapeutic withdrawal “. The specialized afternoon dedicated to the theme “Ethics and spirituality” with an expert speaker, religious and thanatologist, will deepen the relationship between these two dimensions in the context of the care relationship: a challenge for the carers, a commitment for patients and their families to to be able to grasp, even in the time of illness and the end of life, the fullness of humanity and the dignity of every person. The Scientific Managers of the Course, Dr. Paola Ponton and Dr. Massimo Nordio and the Health Management, enhance this path that for some years has represented a point of reference for professionals who are faced with delicate and complex choices, in proportionality and equity for the quality of life and death, towards an appropriateness of care.