Euthanasia and right to life

In this study, history, general terms, debates and different points of view from different perspectives regarding euthanasia and right to life are evaluated as a whole and a sophisticated comparison is made. Euthanasia has always been subject to different debates and criticisms initially from legal, medical, ethic, spiritual and social points. The right to life is certainly the benchmark of any kind of human-related issues. It is an issue that needs to be analyzed, if the right to life which is supposed to be protected carefully and primarily shall even be protected from its beneficiary. The incurable patient's request to die, on the one hand may be regarded as violation of the right to life by its beneficiary, on the other hand may be evaluated as a negative enjoyment by its self-determining and autonomous beneficiary. Within today's free will, individual rights and freedom based democratic legitimacy mentality, it is an indisputable necessity to respect individual preferences. However, this question stands in the focal point of the debates: "Shall a preference to die be deemed as a lawful enjoyment?", in other words, "Does a person have the right to die?". While answering these questions, this fact should be taken in consideration that the incurable patient's excruciating pain has a significant impact on this preference. Both counter views are based on strong principals and arguments. While the anti-euthanasia view is considerably dominant all around the world, the emerging developments in recent years seem to turn the tables.