Ortotanásia como um meio de efetivação da dignidade da pessoa humana: um estudo sob a ótica dos princípios fundamentais brasileiros

Abstract

The present work seeks to elucidate the legal aspects of orthothanasia, procedure in which doctors suspend a particular drug or treatment that keeps the terminally ill person alive, with a view to ending the suffering that these patients end up going through that state they are in. from one constitutional aspect, having as main basis the fundamental rights exposed in the Federal Constitution, a response to the transgression of these rights is sought omnes before the realization – or not – of orthothanasia. That said, the main points that will be raised throughout the work are: 1 - differentiation, from a morphological analysis of orthothanasia and its similar institutes; 2 - bring the importance of the bioethical field and its principles for carrying out this practice; 3 - scrutinize and resolve, from comparison techniques, the constitutional clash that orthotonasia causes in the legal field