Euthanasia: a juridical approach

Abstract

Starting from an analysis on Euthanasia, its concept and different periods that characterize it, the work makes some judgments from the right and tries to reflect properly to understand different aspects of this topic or way of dying: euthanasia, the same legalized gives the power, medical or health personnel, to directly end the lives of people in especially dependent conditions, this is an edge of the problem. Finally, the work concludes with a view from the right that is not even remotely exhausted, because this is a very topical issue and that looks from different points of view of interest to humanity.

KEY WORDS: euthanasia, periodization, suicide, juridical order and right

JEL CODE: I12, K1