A despenalização da morte medicamente assistida no Brasil

Abstract

The study aimed to defend the autonomy of patients at the end of their lives in order to shorten the process of dying. With a qualitative approach and a
descriptive-explanatory objective, the research has a basic strategic purpose. Starting from the phenomenon of death, it used hermeneutic and deductive methods to seek a reasonable proposition to guarantee the fundamental individual rights of patients facing the end of life. To this end, the procedure adopted was bibliographical and documental, notably analysing constitutional, civil and criminal norms, as well as resolutions issued by the Federal Council of Medicine. From the illegality of dysthanasia to the promotion of orthothanasia, the decriminalisation of medically assisted death techniques - euthanasia and assisted death in the strict sense - was justified, ruling out the crimes of homicide and participation in suicide.