Assertion: euthanasia's right | /r/CapableOf | die with dignity
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text: Luxembourg - In February 2008, the Luxembourg Parliament approved a Law on the Right to Die with Dignity.
text: The desire to “die standing”, which is so often used as an argument by advocates of the ‘right to die in dignity
text: The Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations passes a national resolution titled "The Right to Die With Dignity.
text: As Jacqueline Herremans, president of the Association for the Right to Die with Dignity, says: "We don't make a distinction in the semantics.
text: In The Right to Die with Dignity, publication of the First Euthanasia Conference (1968), Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen said the term “life” meant “the total personal being – body, mind and spirit.
text: In 2009 the Supreme Court of South Korea recognized a “right to die with dignity” in its decision to approve a request by the family of a brain-dead woman that she be removed from life-support systems.
text: Though that judgment said the right to live with dignity under Article 21 was inclusive of the right to die with dignity, it did not arrive at a conclusion on the validity of euthanasia, be it active or passive.
text: In July 2013, French President François Hollande stated his personal support for decriminalisation of voluntary euthanasia in France, which had been one of his presidential campaign promises ("introduction of the right to die with dignity"), despite objections from France's National Consultative Ethics Committee/ Comité national consultatif d'éthique, which alleged "abuses" in adjacent jurisdictions that have decriminalised and regulated either voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide (Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg).
text: The arguments for both acts are based on the right to die with dignity and if competent enough, these patients have the right to choose the location and comforts before they are freed from their constant pain.
text: From the humanitarian point of view, the right to die (with dignity) belongs to every individual, and this cannot be ignored no matter how many arguments are put forth against this practice.
text: The Five-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court was tasked with deciding whether Article 21 of the Constitution includes in its ambit the right to die with dignity by means of executing a living wills/advance directives.
text: The Supreme Court in Common Cause (A registered society) v Union of India ruled that individuals had a right to die with dignity, allowing passive euthanasia and living will.
text: It has denied terminally ill people the right to die with dignity.
text: The inability of State parliaments to stand up to organised religion also denies terminally ill people the right to die with dignity.
text: The right to die with dignity is justifiable
text: However, those opposed to voluntary euthanasia must not, including by legislative fiat, deny individuals the right to die with dignity.
text: Australia must observe the right to die with dignity if all individuals are to be respected.
text: Those who support the right to die with dignity recall the words of famed physicist Stephen Hawking in a 2015 interview with the BBC television network, as reported by The Guardian:
text: The president, François Hollande, promised to look at the "right to die with dignity" but has has always denied any intention of legalising euthanasia or assisted suicide.
text: Within a few years, however, Ireland could well be in the midst of a major debate on the right to die with dignity.