Sounds ridiculous but it is true: while doctor’s ethical duty is to save a life, there also should be an ability to get rid of it and relieve suffering. The mainidea is that the ones support a possibility to have a „good and light” death, others believe that a person should live untill the end of his life, no matter how hard it is. This topic is sensitive in terms of ethics and human rights principles.
Before analysing the legal side of euthanasia, its clear definition should be given. The word itself is derived from the Greek word „euthanatos” which means „easy death” – the process which helps to reduce pain, suffering as well as changes in quallity of life resulting from different physical injuries and psychological traumas. The term „euthanasia” is oftenincorrectly used characterising one kind of practice. In reality there are different kinds of euthanasia describing its main forms. Thus, there is voluntary and involuntary euthanasia that has passive and active forms. However, I wou...