Euthanasia: reconciling culture and human rights

Euthanasia: reconciling culture and human rights

Goolam, Nazeem M.I.

1996/00/00

English

19960000

The constitutional justifiability of euthanasia will depend upon interpretation of the right to life and the right to respect for and protection of one's dignity. Pertinent issues arising hereto are: In our new value-based constitutional interpretation, what are the values underlying our multi-cultural society? Issues of death and dying are inter-linked to a civilization's world view and its approach to human dignity. Western, African and Islamic approaches will be compared. Does euthanasia negate the essential content of the right to life and is its limitation on such right reasonable/justifiable in an open and democratic society based on freedom and equality.

20.3.1

20.3.1;20.5.1;21.7;1.2

allowing to die--[pri];attitudes to death--[pri];cultural pluralism--[pri];non-Western world--[pri];Western world--[pri]

Christian ethics;determination of death;euthanasia;Islamic ethics;legal aspects;right to die;sharia;value of life

Ghana;Great Britain;South Africa;United States

Medicine and Law 1996; 15(3): 529-536

ja

journal

37 fn.