The Right to Life and the Right to Physical and Mental Integrity: Pillars of the Security and Protection of the Individual
The Right to Life and the Right to Physical and Mental Integrity: Pillars of the Security and Protection of the Individual

Summary/Abstract: In the long history of mankind, man was never freer and more protected than in the contemporary times, but this status involved many actions, even aggressive, of violence against peers in order to succeed in imposing the idea that man has a range of inalienable and intangible fundamental rights. Among these rights we can distinguish the right to life and the right to physical and mental integrity, both of which constituting the foundation of the individual’s protection and security in relation to his peers and the State. The latter is called, through specific mechanisms, to guarantee and protect the two above rights, of course, together with the other fundamental rights, regardless of the generation they belong to and the instrument that establishes and guarantees them. The protection of the two fundamental rights is carried out by the State through mechanisms specific to all branches of law, because their manifestation is complex, with implications on the whole system of law and on legal relations created under the empire of the whole positive right.

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