I have the right to live. Am I required to die? Proposals de lege ferenda regarding assisted suicide

Authors

  • Constantin-Răzvan Obârșanu Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania - Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences (student)

Keywords:

life, death, right, obligation, private law

Abstract

Through this paper, a real debate develops on an existential issue, namely the correlative obligation of the right to life, respectively, the obligation to pay for it with death. We know from the General Theory of Law that every right has a correlative obligation. Compared to the first laws and principles of life, life ends naturally. Modernity brings to the fore the right to die and its term as a personal and multiple payment. Everyone has the right to life and is bound to die. From the viewpoint of human rights, evolution protects us and gives us the opportunity to relate to our own lives within the limits expressly and exhaustively provided by law. Is the law to be understood in its letter and spirit? The obligation to die is one with indefinite execution, but sure to be fulfilled. The law does not provide for the cessation of life, but it could. Involving private law and combining the subject matter of individuals with that of civil succession, thus using as the method of research chosen, respectively, empirical and qualitative research, descriptive and exploratory, I design this paper in the hope of innovation and evolution of civil matters.

Published

2023-04-13

How to Cite

Obârșanu, C.-R. (2023). I have the right to live. Am I required to die? Proposals de lege ferenda regarding assisted suicide. Ars Aequi, 12(1), 49–55. Retrieved from https://revista.drept-ovidius.ro/index.php/arsaequi/article/view/206

Issue

Section

Private Law