To Die with Dignity

“Can’t you at least die with a little dignity?” The Right to Die Debates and Normative Dignity

Résumé Abstract Au cours des dernières décennies, le droit de mourir a émergé comme l’une des questions sociales et politiques les plus controversées en Amérique du Nord et en Europe. Celui-ci implique la mobilisation de nombreux acteurs sociaux et militants ainsi que plusieurs défis juridiques. Au Québec, le législateur provincial a formé le « Comité spécial sur la question de mourir dans la d...

Recognizing personhood and the right to die with dignity.

Death cannot be viewed properly as either an event or a configuration. Indeed, multiple parts of the body can continue to live long after the disintegration of its central organization is recorded. Instead of collapsing at a moment in time, technological mechanisms are capable of sustaining the major bodily processes indefinitely--all designed to allow for the harvesting of needed organs for tr...

The right to die with dignity and conscientious objection

Colombia’s Constitutional Court, at guaranteeing the fundamental right to live and die with dignity, in the liberating expression of human rights, did not forget the mythical image of Charon ferrying the dead in his boat to Hades2. In Colombia, the struggle against death, stubborn and limitless, contrary to the expression of the patients’ will, cannot anymore be accepted as a duty or as a right...

Euthanasia in Maryland: the right to die with dignity?

Death with dignity and the right to die: sometimes doctors have a duty to hasten death.

As the single most important experience in the lives of all people, the process and event of death must be handled carefully by the medical community. Twentieth-century advances in life-sustaining technology impose new areas of concern on those who are responsible for dying persons. Physicians and surrogates alike must be ready and willing to decide not to intervene in the dying process, indeed...