The right to live and the right to die

Euthanasia : protecting ‘ right to die ’ by denying ‘ right to live ’

This essay primarily discusses voluntary active euthanasia (VAE); the administration of drugs with the explicit intention to end life at the explicit request of a patient6 and physician assisted suicide (PAS); a variant of VAE where final act of administration of lethal drug is performed by patient and physician merely prescribes or supplies the lethal drug. Euthanasia is discussed with special...

The right to die.

The right to privacy and the right to die.

Some of the most significant Supreme Court decisions have, in recent years, been based upon a constitutionally protected right of privacy; that is, an individual's right to be free from unwarranted intrusions into his personal affairs. This constitutionally protected right of privacy was first used to protect an individual's rights to use contraceptives, under the theory that the state enforcem...

Interstate preemption: the right to travel, the right to life, and the right to die.

The right to live.

ver the last three decades medical progress, particularly in the field of molecular biology, has been so rapid that its potential practical applications have aroused some anxiety for the future of the human race. It is interesting therefore that advances in medicine have been parallelled by significant developments in the field of professional ethics. First, a brief historical note. The 1948 Un...