Euthanasia – A Right of the Human Being or a Crime against Humanity? (original) (raw)

Although subject to some of the most important international documents is the fundamental rights and freedoms of man, however, in today's society the man has lost sense of the value and of the dignity of the person and of the sacred human life. Throughout time, man has had a varying attitude toward his own life, just as society's attitude towards its members lives had been variable. When we speak of euthanasia we are talking about human life. This way we come to ask ourselves on the value of life, its foundation and its principle. Although all European States, as well as numerous other countries worldwide have dropped the death penalty and, although it advocated for the abolition of the death penalty throughout the world, human euthanasia or medical assisted suicide is tolerated or legalized. Moreover, in the states where human euthanasia has been decriminalized "for humanitarian reasons", major protests are held against the euthanasia of animals. We live in an age of paradoxes… We live in a time when it is trying to inoculate that everything is done in order that mankind lead a life as easy ... If life has its roughness, then we cannot not ask ourselves why and for what we endure? There is a moment in which to terminate life support aimed to make it to become an act morally? How could it be described such a moment?