A ética cristã e o suicídio assistido

Abstract

The present work theme is the implication of assisted suicide in christian ethic. The assisted suicide, here reported to terminal ills, represents the practice in which a person gets help for dying. Christian ethic is here refereed as the right conduct to be observed through biblical christian principles. On first chapter, the conception of suicide is related, showing that it voiding is related to religion and that the concern about assisted suicide is linked with the medical-hospital treatment ways evolution. On second chapter is demonstrated the impossibility of getting ethics principles by abandoning christian values, where human dignity as God’s creation and through this condition, human people are on God’s disposal, concluding that there are no reasons for a human being for taking off his life. On third chapter, the importance of pain, the fact that suffering doesn’t take the human dignity and the therapeutical alternatives for rescuing dignity of the human being in front of death, like paliative medicine, are related. It’s intended to show, through this work, that assisted suicide represents the modern medicine failure, bringing suffering although moving death away, through christian ethic it’s shown that suffer doesn’t take the human dignity away and, but, indicates ways for helping people in suffer.