미국헌법상 안락사와 존엄사에 관한 연구

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

On May 21, 2009, the Supreme Court of Korea ordered to eliminate device for meaningless life-suspending treatment from a 78-year-old female patient, accepting her children's claim that she had always opposed keeping people alive on life-extending machines and her self-determination right, protected by right to human dignity and right pursuing happiness under Article 10 of the Constitution of Republic of Korea, should be guaranteed as a fundamental right. It is very interesting that although that decision has never used the terminology of ‘Death with Dignity’, many domestic media called it as the first Death with Dignity decision in Korea. But the concept of ‘Death with Dignity’ in Korea is mingled with the similar concepts of 'Withdrawal of Life-sustaining Treatment' or 'Assisted Suicide', etc., on an advocate's own point of view. It is also difficult matter to classify the concepts and to make legislation handling 'Death with Dignity', because the meaning of 'Death with Dignity' has been changing and it does not exactly square with the meaning from the general classifications on euthanasia. On the basis of the critical mind on these problems, this Article reviews the possibility of acknowledging the self-determining right to 'Death with Dignity' of terminally ill patient as a basic right and its constitutional basis, for example, under the Ninth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment in U.S. Constitution. And it also examines the leading cases on passive euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, such as In re Quinlan(355 A.2d 647 (N.J. 1976)), Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health(497 U.S. 261 (1990)), Washington v. Glucksberg(117 S. Ct. 2258 (1997)), and Vacco v. Quill(117 S. Ct. 2293 (1997)). Futhermore, it overviews a diversity of opinions on whether 'Death with Dignity' should be protected as a constitutional fundamental right in U.S.

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