Right to Die or Duty to Live? The Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Legal Thought
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Abstract
The essay aims to reflect on the legal, ethical and political issues concerning the euthanasia and the assisted suicide. In a liberal, democratic and pluralist society the terminally ill's will and his "right to die", freely chosen, must prevail on a communitarian bond, that could be also conceived as a "duty to live"; nonetheless, the real, thorny issue to solve is the safeguard of the weak subjects against the possible manipulations of their will.
Keywords
- Biolaw
- Bioethics
- Euthanasia
- Assisted Suicide
- Liberalism
- Pluralism
