Derecho a legalizar la eutanasia en Ecuador en paciente con enfermedad terminal: Propuesta de proyecto de ley.

Abstract

In Ecuador there is no legal regulation that allows access to the medical practice of euthanasia for patients who have a terminal illness and are suffering unnecessarily without having the opportunity to decide and to use the euthanasia method as their voluntary manifestation of feeling a dignified death. The problem lies in the lack of recognition and regulation in the legal norm on euthanasia becausethere is no protocol, regulation and/or guidelines, nor are there guarantees for professional doctors who decide to practice euthanasia since it is considered a crime. Research that presents definitions of the topic in the theoretical framework on euthanasia, legal part and comparative legislation with the purpose of regulatingand treating the practice of euthanasia in Ecuadorian territory through a reform to the Comprehensive Organic Penal Code where an article of the issue and to guarantee adequate exercise of the practice of euthanasia in Ecuador.