This book is about the ‘right to die’, a definition encapsulating – aside from the individual claim of those advocating for the legalisation of passive euthanasia and/or physician-assisted suicide – many intricate issues, i.e. the taboo of death and the incapability of our civilization to cope with it; the role of public institutions to take care of those less autonomous and self-sufficient in our societies; the relation between public discourse, political decision-making and the law. weiterlesen