THE LIVING WILL AND ITS APPLICABILITY BASED ON PERSONALITY RIGHTS AND BIORIGHT

Abstract

The presente study aims do examine the living will and its applicability based on personality rights and bioright. It’s necessary to examine first two personality rights that have direct relationship with the discussion based on the living will: right to life and
the right to liberty. Thereby will be possible to exame more clearly the institutes of bioethics and biorights, as well as the means of human intervention at the moment of death, such as euthanasia, dysthanasia, orthotanasia and assisted suicide. Moreover, there will be presented the living will and all its guidelines, which will then lead to the conclusion of whether or not this institute is fit within the rights of personality and the possibility of collision between them, creating a new right: the right do death.