Derecho a la muerte digna, el caso de tratamiento de los cadáveres frente al Covid-19 caso guayaquileño.

Abstract

The present investigation had the general objective of demonstrating the violation of the right to a dignified death as a consequence of the treatment of the corpses against the Covid-19 case of Guayaquil, within the specific objectives it was proposed to analyze the doctrinal elements that make up the right to a dignified death , determine how the right to a dignified death of citizens was violated in the Covid-19 pandemic as well as analyze whether there was reparation to the relatives of the people whose right to a dignified death was violated within the Covid pandemic- 19. The present investigation showed that the Ecuadorian government was negligent in relation to making decisions in a timely manner in the crisis of the pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus, it was evidenced in the fact that since February 29, 2020, already The state was aware of the first confirmed case within Ecuador and it was on March 16 of that same year that a state of exception was decreed to combat a pandemic of which the consequences were already known worldwide. It was concluded that during the Covid-19 the right to a dignified death was violated to the corpses of the people who died as a result of this pandemic, they were not given a proper burial and there was poor handling of them. The Ecuadorian State was recommended to compensate the families of the people whose right to a dignified death was violated within the Covid-19 pandemic.