L’invisibilità dei diritti: riflessioni a proposito del ‘dovere di morire’

Abstract

The following reflections summarize the current theme of human rights, the right-duty to die and its configurability from the point of view of the general theory of law and from the perspective of Christian bioethics. Where can freedom go? What is right and what is not? The claim of the new rights takes the form of an ever stronger demand for justice. The interruption of health care despite the demand for life has meant that death has lived and life has died. This new legal phenomenon has inevitable and paradoxical consequences: freedom and the right to die become a duty.