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The right to die with dignity and conscientious objection

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Abstract

he project of life is linked to freedom, as a right of each person to choose their own destiny. (...) The project of life fully encompasses the ideal of the American Declaration (of the Rights and Duties of Man) of 1948, which proclaims the spiritual development as the supreme end and the highest expression of human existence.

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 Hades . 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 of the doctors, who now must resign themselves to the conscious and independent decision of their patients, understanding the dimension of existence and of human dignity against the limits of medicine and science, to lead them, just with the necessary palliative care, in crossing the River Styx, to the "world of the dead ". Denying euthanasia, in terms of the decision of the Constitutional Court, constitutes a flagrant violation of the patients' "life project", who have, in the established circumstances, the right to legitimate anticipation of death.

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  • Jose Henrique Rodrigues Torres Professor of Criminal Law. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas. San Pablo. Brazil

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  • Die
  • dignity
  • conscientious objection

Author Biography


, Professor of Criminal Law. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas. San Pablo. Brazil
Professor of Criminal Law. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas. San Pablo. Brazil

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Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. Caso Loayza Tamayo versus Perú (Reparaciones), Sentencia del 27 de noviembre de 1998. 1998. p. parrs 15–parrs 16

Corte Constitucional de Colombia. Sentencia C-239-97. Gaceta de la Corte Constitucional; Bogotá DC: 1997

Kafka F. The Trial. New York, USA: Random House, Inc; 1992. p. 276

Corte Constitucional de Colombia. Sentencia T-970-2014. Gaceta de la Corte Constitucional; Bogotá DC: 2014

Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social. Resolución 1216 del 2015. Diario Oficial 49489; 2015

General Assembly of United Nations. Elimination of all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based our religion or belief. Resolution 60/166. United Nations; 2005

General Assembly of United Nations. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Resolution 2200A (XXI). United Nations; 1966

Corte Constitucional de Colombia. Sentencia C-355-06. Bogotá DC: Gaceta de la Corte Constitucional; 2006

Bobbio N. The age of Rights. New York: Wiley, Jon & Sons, Incorporated; 1995. p. 200

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Rodrigues Torres, J. (2015). The right to die with dignity and conscientious objection. Colombia Médica, 46(2), 52-53. https://doi.org/10.25100/cm.v46i2.2000
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