Desarrollos recientes en la jurisprudencia sobre el derecho a morir

This paper reviews the sentences dictated between 1993 and 2002 by the Supreme Courts of Canada and the Unites States, the House of Lords and Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the European Human Rights Court, about the validity of the legal prohibition of assistance for suicide. These sentence...

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Autor principal: Bascuñán R,Antonio
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2016
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720160004000092016-07-01Desarrollos recientes en la jurisprudencia sobre el derecho a morirBascuñán R,Antonio Euthanasia, Active Right to Die Suicide, Assisted Value of Life This paper reviews the sentences dictated between 1993 and 2002 by the Supreme Courts of Canada and the Unites States, the House of Lords and Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the European Human Rights Court, about the validity of the legal prohibition of assistance for suicide. These sentences constituted a judicial consensus about the right to die. This consensus recognized the legal right of patients to reject medical treatments but did not recognize the right to be assisted by a physician to commit suicide. This exclusion is changing in the recent case law of Canada and the United Kingdom, which accepts the fundamental right of terminal patients to medically assisted suicide.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.144 n.4 20162016-04-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872016000400009es10.4067/S0034-98872016000400009
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language Spanish / Castilian
topic Euthanasia, Active
Right to Die
Suicide, Assisted
Value of Life
spellingShingle Euthanasia, Active
Right to Die
Suicide, Assisted
Value of Life
Bascuñán R,Antonio
Desarrollos recientes en la jurisprudencia sobre el derecho a morir
description This paper reviews the sentences dictated between 1993 and 2002 by the Supreme Courts of Canada and the Unites States, the House of Lords and Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the European Human Rights Court, about the validity of the legal prohibition of assistance for suicide. These sentences constituted a judicial consensus about the right to die. This consensus recognized the legal right of patients to reject medical treatments but did not recognize the right to be assisted by a physician to commit suicide. This exclusion is changing in the recent case law of Canada and the United Kingdom, which accepts the fundamental right of terminal patients to medically assisted suicide.
author Bascuñán R,Antonio
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title Desarrollos recientes en la jurisprudencia sobre el derecho a morir
title_short Desarrollos recientes en la jurisprudencia sobre el derecho a morir
title_full Desarrollos recientes en la jurisprudencia sobre el derecho a morir
title_fullStr Desarrollos recientes en la jurisprudencia sobre el derecho a morir
title_full_unstemmed Desarrollos recientes en la jurisprudencia sobre el derecho a morir
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publisher Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate 2016
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