Eutanásia: questões bioéticas e legais

Abstract

It approaches the most important questions related to the euthanasia. It describes the main ways of understanding the death throughout the occidental history and defines the way it is perceived in the current days. It brings up to date the agreement about the diagnosis of death based on the currently accepted technician criteria. It analyzes the euthanasia since its primitive ways of presentation in diverse societies until its modern configurations, definition and unfoldings of meaning, also considering the disthanasia and ortothanasia. It covers the main foreign legal forecast on the subject and shows the native attempts of leaning over on the problem and trying to create an incipient legislation about it. It faces the result of the comparison between the brazilian society analysis front of the institucional apparatus necessary to legally foresee the euthanasia and also analyses the possibility of an adequate approach to the local reality about the legal forecast of possible behaviors front of the condition of the terminal patient.