A possibilidade da prática da eutanásia com fundamento na dignidade da pessoa humana.

Abstract

The present paper deals with the theme "the possibility of the practice of euthanasia on the grounds of human dignity". It is intended, based on recent and relevant literature on the concerning situation, analyze, discuss and present the main theoretical aspects involving this problem. The research methodology used is the bibliographical research, which consists, basically, in reading, book reporting and comparison of theories of the main authors of the Law that on the topic. The first chapter focuses on human rights, its concept, and historical development, achievements in fundamental rights, hence leaving for analysis limits, conflicts and solutions thereof. The second chapter turns to the study of the principle of human dignity. It seeks to bring together their concepts, through its assertiveness in the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988 and leaving for the recognition of this principle as the basis of fundamental rights and constitutional foundation, analyzing, too, about the possibility of such a principle be absolute in our legal system. Lastly, the third chapter deals with euthanasia, its concept and historical evolution, making a compendium of its practice in several countries, and relating to human dignity against the right to life, in order to verify the possibility of the overlapping of each other for the application of euthanasia. Thus, starting from the understanding that every person is worthy of dignity, the question arises: when a diseased human being, arising from a terminal ill, no longer supports its condition, it is possible to fight for their right to life (and death) dignified, based on human dignity? In that way, it sought to demonstrate that the human being is holder of rights, and analyze to what extent it can decide their own destiny. In this way, it sought to demonstrate that human beings are holder of rights, and analyze to what extent it can decide their own destiny.