Eutanásia e suicídio assistido sob o prisma do direito brasileiro e comparado

Abstract

This article aims, then, to bring international legislation on the legalization of assisted death from the Brazilian perspective. Therefore, euthanasia and assisted suicide will be conceptualized, as well as its difference with other similar institutes. Regarding the legislation, it will be exposed how the homeland law addresses both, given the prohibitive character existing in the national legal system, and similarly, being compared with foreign law, which allows the practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide, all with the purpose of build up the practice of these procedures in these nations. In order to expose the theme, the inductive approach method was used, in order to explain in more detail about each subject approached, all corroborated through sources and bibliographical references from other articles and books.