Autore
Barbisan, Benedetta

Titolo
Paradossi e finzioni del "diritto a morire" nella giurisprudenza statunitense a partire dal caso Quinlan
Periodico
Diritto pubblico
Anno: 2012 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 213 - Pagina finale: 264

The author tackles the question of what a claim such as that of the 'right to die'means for our time, for the sense that we give to our communities and to theindividual who lives there. The first case, Quinlan, decided by the Supreme Courtof New Jersey in the mid-1970s, occurred at the time when the first transplantswere being performed and when the concept of death was in the process of beingredefined, as was that of informed consent. Deciding how and when to die givesrise to host of paradoxes and a consequent corollary of legal fictions, revealingthe relationship that binds the individual to the community where he (or she) lives,what remains of public responsibility before the frailty of individuals andtheir loved ones, and the autonomy of the individual that assumes the full selfdeterminationof the person involved but also, at times, the painful solitude ofthe same.



SICI: 1721-8985(2012)1<213:PEFD"A>2.0.ZU;2-4
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