La autonomía del paciente como justificación moral de la eutanasia. Análisis de su instrumentalización y perversión

Abstract

Faced with the impending approval of the euthanasia law in Spain, the article presents an ethical analysis of the perversion of the patients’ autonomy in countries where it is already decriminalized. It manifests how legislators and leaders of libertarian autonomism have ended up obstinately insisting that patients voluntarily choose euthanasia while in reality, they requested it under ideological, psychological, and social pressure. The result is the neglect of the weakest and the justification of an immoral medical practice that pretends to respect personal autonomy.