Ethical-legal foundations to legalize the assisted suicide

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  • Carlos Gaviria Díaz Author

Abstract

The person is recognized constitutionally as an independent moral subject, able to choose the principIes and moral values that govern his life. The democratic and liberal State recognizes that the perspective from which the problem of the good and bad thing can be examined are diverse. From that pluralism, it is quite legitimate to consider whether life is a sacred good or is something with no value. Who benevolently, accedes to put term to the suffering and to someone's life of which is unbearable, has not done any good, but removed him from miserable situation. The legalization of active euthanasia and the restrictions and precautions adopted by the Colombian Constitutional Court, erase the fragile distinction between omitting a behavior that would prolong the life of a terminal patient or fulfilling an action specifical1y directed to end.

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Author Biography

Carlos Gaviria Díaz

Doctor en Derecho y Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad de Antioquia. Estudiante especial de la Universidad de Harvard en las áreas de Jurisprudence (Lon 1. Fuller), Constitutional Law (Paul Freund) y Political Theory (Carl J. Friedrich). Ha sido profesor de la Universidad de Antioquia, Vicerrector general de la misma Universidad. Magistrado de la Corte Constitucional (1993), Presidente de la Corte Constitucional (1996). Autor, entre otras, de las siguientes obras: Superación de los dualismos jurídicos en Kelsen, La inconstitucionalidad de la Constitución, ¿Qué puede significar una expresión como: la conducta X es obligatoria?, Kelsen Wittgenstein y las fronteras del lenguaje, ¿Mito o logos? Primera encrucijada del espíritu, Contemplación del ser o esclarecimiento de su senda, ¿Son normas los usos sociales?, La ética del «como si», Temas de Introducción al Derecho, Sieyés y el constitucionalismo colombiano. Distinciones: Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Galardón Jurista Emérito, Colegio de Abogados de Santafé de Bogotá; Escudo de Oro, Escuela Nacional Sindical; Orden del Surriago, XXI Proclamación; Ejecutivos Antioqueños; Orden José Ignacio de Márquez, Consejo Superior de la Judicatura; Escudo de Oro, Universidad de Antioquia y Gobernación de Antioquia; Orden Cámara Junior de Colombia, Capítulo Medellín; Orden al mérito universitario Francisco Antonio Zea, Universidad de Antioquia; Profesor Honorario, Universidad de Antioquia.

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Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (1999)

Section

Memorias Foro Internacional por la Vida

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