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A European Right to Assisted Suicide? Moral Justifications of the ECtHR Case Law
Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS).
2019 (engelsk)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 poäng / 15 hpOppgave
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This thesis seeks to investigate whether the current European Court of Human Rights case-law on assisted suicide can be justified using Kantian or Utilitarian arguments. The theory, consisting of Utilitarianism and Kantianism, is applied to three key cases arguing a right to assisted suicide under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights; Pretty v. the United Kingdom, Haas v. Switzerland and Koch v. Germany. Using argumentation analysis, arguments based on the case-law in combination with the two theories are presented and discussed. In a discussion centered around concepts such as autonomy, utility and rationality, the thesis concludes that the two theories are indeed useful in justifying the case-law on assisted suicide. The observation that the two theories can justify the same actions on different grounds concludes the essay, before ideas encouraging future research are presented.

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Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle , 2019. , s. 43
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assisted suicide, ECtHR, ethics, Kantianism, Utilitarianism
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23180Lokal ID: 28857OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-23180DiVA, id: diva2:1483141
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