The Right To Dispose Of His Life - The Urgent Issue Of Criminal Law And Criminology

Authors

  • Vladyslava Batyrharieieva

Keywords:

right to die, euthanasia

Abstract

This paper explores the «right to die» as an independent phenomenon in connection with the right to life as a precondition for the existence and implementation of all other human rights. The question about the availability of the right to dispose of their own lives, realize that the right to die when it comes to euthanasia, which, as rightly observed by researchers, is one of the most pressing and unresolved medical-deontological, ethical, philosophical and legal problems.
Thus, in the lives of individuals due to various reasons such questions arise, because the ability of defense mechanisms of the human psyche are not infinite. And so broken theme is not something everyday and abstract science to criminal law cycle. In this regard, particular hope relies on criminology and criminal law, which in conjunction with research to give a clear legal assessment of this phenomenon as a whole and its individual manifestations.
Also, the author examines the different ways of expressing the right of a person to death, including suicide reflects the place in the system of social relations and explore forms of euthanasia. Raises the question of criminal responsibility of the person who takes part in euthanasia due to various combinations of forms of guilt that creates the problem of delimitation of the effects of certain offenses enshrined by criminal law.

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Published

2019-06-20

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