Medicina Fluminensis, Vol. 44 No. 2, 2008.
Pregledni rad
End-of-life directives
Nenad Hlača
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Sažetak
According the right to selfdetermination, legal orders of many states adopted the acts on the respect of the right on end-of-life decisions. The part of Croatian legal order is the Convention for the protection of human rights and dignity of the human being with regard to the application of biology and medicine: Convention on human rights and medicine which stated that previously expresed wishes relating to medical intervention by a patient who is not, at the time of the intervention, in a state to express his or her wishes shall be taken into account. So, in Croatia legal framework exists, however particular legal form is still missing. In this paper, starting from comparative approach and interpretation of Croatian positive law, it is concluded that the special act related to the end-of-life decisions should be adopted soon. This act should prescribe an obligatory legal form which will protect the right to selfdetermination of the comptetent patient to decide in advance about withdrawing of life sustaining medical treatment.
Ključne riječi
advance directives; life sustaining treatment; right to selfdetermination
Hrčak ID:
26839
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.9.2008.
Posjeta: 2.237 *