End-of-life Decisions in Czech Republic

0562448 - ÚSP 2023 eng A - Abstract
Doležal, Adam
End-of-life Decisions in Czech Republic.
[International Chair in Bioethics 14th World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Health Law. Porto, 07.03.2022-10.03.2022]
Method of presentation: Přednáška
Event organizer: WMA
URL events: https://upbioetica.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Book-of-Abstracts-of-the-International-Chair-in-Bioethics-14th-World-Conference-on-Bioethics-Medical-Ethics-Health-Law.pdf 
Institutional support: RVO:68378122
OECD category: Law

This lecture is concentrated on the topic of end-of-life decisions in Czech Republic. There is a huge topic between doctors, lawyers, and ethicists about proposal of the Euthanasia Act, which will be soon negotiated in Czech Parliament. Therefor one of the topics of this presentation would be the wording of this act and some problematic aspects of it. Another important issues at the end-of-life discussion should be also critical decisions like withdrawing and withholding of life-sustaining
treatment and palliative sedation. They are maybe even more important but their legal background in Czech Republic is critically insufficient. Current legal conditions are in direct contradiction with judicial opinions of European Court of Human Rights, especially legal opinion expressed in Lambert and others v France and Glass v. the United Kingdom. In this lecture there will be presented this insufficiency of Czech legal order and compare it with ECHR case law.

Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0334765