TESTAMENTO VITAL: uma alternativa do Direito para uma morte digna

Abstract

The life is considered as the basic right more precious than a human being can intend to fight and to be tutored person for the State. However, the manifestation of the life deserves to be carried through with dignity. The life finds its opposing extremity in the occurrence of the death. The dignity of the person human being, as bigger bedding, must be preserved and be respected, also at the moment of the death. The dignity human being is printed in the right to reveal on the proper autonomy of each individual, in special, for the form that this opts so that its death can occur. The autonomy of the freedom human being is the recognition of its proper condition as human being and that it must prevail in a democratic and plural society, with respect to the individual decisions, since that interests or rights of third parties are not affected with the chosen decision. The Bioetica, to the side of the Biodireito, ahead presents individual the basic principles that must direct the medical behaviors and of a delicate subject that is the option for a worthy death. The Ethics, as science, determines the beddings necessary for the justification of a citizen in fondness not to be taken care of by medical team when if to find at moment of terminalidade of its physical existence. The Right, for its turn, establishes criteria and defines the principles that must be invoked to support the taken decision then. It appears, therefore, the vital will that if presents as alternative instrument to allow and to recognize the right to the individual freedom and the option for ahead not receiving treatments medical from the diagnosis of irreversible picture. The option for a worthy death, ahead of irreversible pictures of health, deserves to be dealt with as a question public health. The freedom of choice of each individual, through the anticipated declaration of the will, represents the recognition of the dignity of the person human being at the moment of its death, so that this can, as sequência of the life, to occur of worthy form.