ПРАВНО-ЕТИЧКИ АСПЕКТИ ЛЕКАРЕВЕ ПОМОЋИ НЕИЗЛЕЧИВО БОЛЕСНОМ ПАЦИЈЕНТУ
LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF PHYSICIAN'S ASSISTANCE TO INCURABLE PATIENTS

Summary/Abstract: Current legal solutions regulating medical treatment of terminally ill or incurable patients (except for solutions adopted in the Dutch law) are based on the view of limited sanctity of human life, a standpoint supported by traditional medical ethics, legal doctrine, medical and court practice. According to that view, criminal and civil law recognize patient's right to passive euthanasia and active indirect euthanasia, subject to material and procedural limitations set by the law and which fall under the scope of so-called normal medical practice, while at the same time incriminating right to physician's assistance with suicide and the right to active direct and voluntary euthanasia. View of the modern medical ethics, legal doctrine and medical and court practice, also supported by the author, is that there are no moral and legal reasons for different legal status of passive euthanasia and active indirect euthanasia, on one side, and physician's assistance with suicide and active direct and voluntary suicide, on the other side.

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