Expert at the European Center for Law and Justice (ECLJ), Nicolas Bauer intervenes in this capacity before the Human Rights Council (UN) and the European Court (ECHR).
The citizens' convention on the end of life came out in favor of legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide.
In response to this vote, the Association for the Right to Die with Dignity (ADMD) affirmed that such
“active assistance in dying”
would be
“a right that we give that takes nothing away from anyone”.
The ADMD defends a
"fundamental right to freely choose when and how to end one's life".
However, this idea comes up against several legal and factual elements.
From an international point of view, “active assistance in dying” is considered a violation of human rights.
The main United Nations treaty protecting human rights (1966) specifies that
“the right to life is inherent in the human person”.
This inherence implies that the right to life must be defended regardless of…
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