Testamento vital e diretivas antecipadas da vontade.

Abstract

Bioethics is a matter of extreme importance and little addressed in the judicial level. The evolution of medicine has compelled the other disciplines to evolve, especially the right, who came to give support and even to regulate various measures taken, all based on this technological breakthrough. The right has a fundamental role for this medical breakthrough can be fully enjoyed in the formal legal. In this line of thought, it is important to be guaranteed the patient's will, in other words, its power autonomy in decisions regarding future medical treatments that will be imposed. The present work aims to analyze and understand the importance of the living will, even if it has no specific legislation about. The living will is with the purpose of give greater support and justice with respect for patient autonomy, and that the human being is not required to undergo some kind of future treatment that can cause you greater suffering. The advances of the medicine has required the evolution of the Brazilian judiciary, that pass judgments based on the bioethics and observing the validation requirements of advance directives of the will of patients suffering from some terminal disease. The research method used in this research was the hypothetical-deductive, which merges a previous study of the subject, with which formulates a hypothesis, with the search for foundation through deductive process, for the realization of that thought.