英文摘要 |
The development of legislation on 'good death' service in comparative law has experienced a process from the avoiding euthanasia legislation in many countries to the success of natural death and palliative legislation in many countries, and then to the gradual expansion to the legality of assisted sui-cide and euthanasia in a few countries. This development is rooted in the interaction between the medical-ization of death and the pluralistic secular view of death, and its fundamental goal is to balance life pro-tection and patient self-determination. Different legislative models have formed, including the model of separation or integration of natural death and palliative legislation based on patients' right to medical self-determination, the assisted suicide model and euthanasia model based on de facto freedom of death and medical assistance. In China, refusing to recognize the legality of assisted suicide and euthanasia does not constitute a violation of the PRC Constitution. In the future, China's legislation should focus on palliative care, adopt the legislative model of integrating palliative care and natural death legislation, and makes clear provisions on the service objects, expression of will, implementation procedures while recognizing the terminally ill patients have the right to refuse life support medical treatment and obtain palliative care. |