Assisted Suicide or Euthanasia According to the New Criminal Code

摘要

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are subjects that always provoked passionate discussions and various reactions, both in academic, politics, medicine environment and daily life [1]. Today, however, the media information is spreading with great speed around the world, and people are constantly up to date with the relevant events that would have been difficult to be accessed in the past. In Sparta, handicapped children were exposed and left to die, issue approved by Aristotle, for reasons of public interest (Policy VII). Platon extended this practice to the seriously ill elders (Republic 460). Epicurus summed up the general trend of thought of the ancient Greeks: "We are masters of pain, masters in supporting them if they are incurred, and otherwise, masters of leaving life with the tranquile soul, as we leave the theater if we do not like it". In the Roman times, particularly Stoic philosophers practiced euthanasia, by suicide, claiming the right of every individual to have an easy death. Thus, Zenon strangled himself, Cleant, Caton, Seneca and other Stoics committed suicide. Seeley observed that for the Romanians "killing children practiced by a friend of the family was considered a measure of wise economy". Considering all of these, we can say, according to the experts [2], that the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide involves profound changes in the social attitudes towards illness, disability, death and old age, while making essential changes to the role of medical profession. Human values such as patience, compassion, solidarity, commitment, drain, really and are meaningless? It becomes a "treatment option" along with surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, pain treatment or medication with antidepressants [3]? What is legal and moral?