Morte digna e seus aspectos bioéticos e jurídicos

Abstract

This article has as its theme the the dignified death analysis in a bioethical approach. In this regard, the limits of the autonomy to choose death are analyzed, offering the right to a dignified death for terminal patients, as well as distinguishing the bioethical categories about the finitude of life. It argues the ways to achieve the autonomy of choice for terminal patients, through advance directives of willingness, among them, the living will, regulated in Brazil through Resolution number 1.995 / 2012, of the Federal Council of Medicine. Therefore, the work has as general objective the analyzation of the Living Will institute, its formalization and procedure in Brazil, demonstrating that every citizen deserves to have a dignified death, conversely to the right to life, due the Federal Constitution. In a specific manner, the present research aims to analyze the boundaries of the choice of death that terminal patients can have, taking into consideration the Principle of Human Dignity in combination with the possibility to reach a dignified death. This research will also cover bioethics as an area of transdisciplinary knowledge that reflects death and dying, understanding the first one as a process and the last as a result. The dialectical and of historical procedure methods are used, seeking to do an emergence of bioethics and orthothanasia analysis, in order to reduce terminally ill patients suffer who seek to die in a dignified manner, in addition, this exploration has the bibliographic search as a technique to do an exploratory and qualitative research.