Eutanásia e o direito à morte digna

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze the assumptions of the Law in relation to the Principle of Human Dignity regarding the right to life in cases of terminally ill patients and euthanasia. The study consists of analyzing euthanasia as the acceleration of a patient's death to avoid further suffering. Active euthanasia refers to the physician's deliberate act, usually the administration of lethal drugs, to end the life of an incurable or terminal patient. As it is a very old practice, in contemporary society euthanasia has attracted the attention of all areas, and several researchers have expressed their opinions about the end of life; hence the problematic relationship between euthanasia and the freedoms and rights afforded by democracy. What delimits the particularity of this practice is precisely the transdisciplinary dimension, the analytical coordinates that we intend to portray in this approach that we consider closely related to social reality. The research methodology was bibliographic in the search for information through articles, books, doctrines, laws and jurisprudence.