Abstract

MAZUERA AYALA, Paula  and  MAZUERA AYALA, Andrea. Euthanasia: a body says no, a will that demands dignity. Rev. repub. [online]. 2022, n.32, pp.197-220.  Epub Sep 18, 2022. ISSN 1909-4450.  https://doi.org/10.21017/rev.repub.2022.v32.a123.

This article proposes to analyze euthanasia from a socio-legal angle, understanding that if there is a legal and medical framework in Colombia that addresses this practice, the evidence reveals that various cultural, institutional, political and social elements permeated the application, creating an authentic legal problem, with severe connotations in the relationship between individual freedoms and the social rule of law. To carry out this analysis, a joint interpretation of legal, theoretical, medical, scientific and journalistic elements was carried out that would contribute to the critical understanding of access to euthanasia and of the bodily reality of the patient as a subject of law.

Keywords : euthanasia; right to a dignified death; individual freedoms; terminal illness; regulation of euthanasia.

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