T-332/17
Euthanasia
T- 332 de 2017 y T- 544 de 2017. Two new cases of euthanasia
The decision adopted in the judgment T-322 of 2017 studied the case of an adult over 91 years old, who requested euthanasia, due to the loneliness he was going through, added to his precarious state of health and advanced age . The Court did not protect dignified death if not a dignified life, and this decision introduces a novel concept in the jurisprudence of euthanasia that calls the duty of circumscribed verification that "judges and health care institutions, in the case of requests raised by adults older and directed to the practice of the euthanasia procedure, they must carefully analyze the circumstances of each case, in order to establish whether the request involves a call for attention in the face of a situation of vulnerability and abuse, and thus establish which be the "correct performance of public authorities to guarantee the effective enjoyment of fundamental rights."
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