According to the dictionary, a crime is an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction. We can also consider that a crime is a deviant behavior that violates prevailing norms and cultural standards that prescribe how humans ought to behave. Euthanasia is defined by the Petit Larousse as a practice of causing the death of an individual affected by an incurable disease which imposes him or her unbearable moral and physical sufferings, particularly by a doctor or under his control. Is euthanasia a crime, or deviant behavior, or an act of mercy and charity towards the suffering persons? We will see how the notion of crime is fluctuant, and will discuss the problem about euthanasia, which is legalized in some countries but still considering as a crime in the majority of the others. The debate on the euthanasia is not finished yet, and although this practice is forbidden in most of the countries, the march towards the legalization is gradually becoming apparent as shown in the Kouchner law of March 4th, 2002 in France which wants to avoid the use of intensive medication.
[...] Nowadays, the notion of a crime is different between the countries. For example, the abortion is a right in France since the Veil Law of 1975, but is still considering as a crime in Ireland, while these two countries have a close culture and are both members of the European Union . A crime : a production of the law In the Birth of a tragedy, Nietzsche established a link between creativity and crime, asserting best and brightest that a man can acquire he must obtain by crime”. [...]
[...] In fact, crime is a product of law : some American theorists said that the responsible of the criminality in our society is . the law itself This point of view makes as a principle that the law creates and defines what is a crime and what isn't one : lawless, no crime However, the theorists of the natural law like Thomas d'Aquin, William Blackstone or Rousseau considered on the contrary that the laws of the government and the State, the positive law, is not the only which are imposed to human beings. [...]
[...] In Europe, only Greece, Romania, Ireland and certain Eastern European countries such as Croatia or Poland forbid formally the euthanasia and consider it as a crime. As a conclusion, the debate on the euthanasia is not finished yet, and although this practice is forbidden in most of the countries, the march towards the legalization is little by little apparent as showed it the Kouchner law of March 4th in France for example which wants to avoid the use of intensive medication. [...]
[...] The problem of euthanasia : crime or mercy? The question of the euthanasia is in the heart of numerous ethical debates in the western countries some consider that it can be considering as a right to die with dignity whereas others still considers it as a crime An ethical debate The word “euthanasia” comes from the Greek “euthanos”, meaning good death”, the act ending the life of another person to avoid him or her agony. It is moreover on this sense the term is used for the animal euthanasia, where we kill our pets in order to spare them the sufferings of the disease. [...]
[...] In the Islamic religion, the man represents the most important and the most complex divine work. The active euthanasia is legally forbidden, because it corresponds to a murder committed by the doctor, even when he acts at the request of the patient, by intending to abbreviate his suffering, the doctor cannot be more merciful. On the contrary, the passive euthanasia cannot be forbidden, in these precise cases, because the majority of the Muslim jurists don't impose the medical care even in cases where we hope for the cure. [...]
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