Euthanasia Between Autonomy, Dignity, and the Legal Protection of Life: Can the Right to Life be Transformed into a Right to Die?
The right to life is a basic human right and the foundation for the protection of all other rights and freedoms. In this context, euthanasia opens up complex legal, ethical, philosophical and psychological dilemmas, especially in the relationship between the patient’s autonomy and the state’s obligation to protect life...