Euthanasia in the Context of Spanish Law

Abstract

The recognition of the right to life, as well as the right to die, is a sensitive subject to be addressed, but also topical, as the approach to these two rights is a multidisciplinary one, in relation to legislative, religious, medical, social provisions.

A person's right to die involves compassion for physical and mental suffering, translated into a deliberate act of ending a person's suffering, with their consent.

In the analysis of the two rights, namely the right to life and the right to die, we notice that, surprisingly, we cannot dispose of them, even if, in many states, both euthanasia and assisted suicide are legalized, the legislator omitted to draw with accuracy the limits of the exercise of these fundamental principles of man, and a major problem that can arise precisely from the lack of limits of the exercise of the right to death, is reprized by "death tourism