right to a dignified death

As a result, Mac has come to believe strongly in a person's right to a dignified death.

Dignity in Dying's stated view is that everyone has the right to a dignified death.

“I just want the right to a dignified death, when I wish that to happen.”

The majority said the state's interest in protecting life's sanctity took precedence over the right to a dignified death.

In the book, the author chronicles medical advances and increased longevity in the context of the right to a dignified death.

Late last year Canada's Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that life's sanctity took precedence over the right to a dignified death.

But this right also involves the right not to be subjected to inhumane treatment, the right to have access to care and the right to a dignified death.

In 2007, the Socialists joined the opposition Popular Party in voting against the legalisation of euthanasia as a way of ensuring the right to a dignified death.

"Everyone has the right to a dignified death," said Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe, the president of a leading association of German doctors, "but nobody has the right to be killed.

Assisted suicide and the right to a dignified death focuses on the disabled/ill person not wanting to give this same right to others such as indigenous people, prisoners and the public at large.

This society was founded by an Englishman, Derek Humphrey, who believes that terminally ill people should have the right to a dignified death through self-deliverance at a time, a place and through a method they choose.