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EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS UNANIMOUSLYUPHOLDS BRITISH SUICIDE LAW.(Diane Pretty cases)(Brief Article)
On April 29, a seven-judge chamber of the European Court of Human Rights unanimously upheld the United Kingdom?s assisting suicide statute against a claim by a woman terminally ill with Lou Gehrig?s disease that it violates numerous provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The United Kingdom and a number of other European nations have by treaty adopted the 1950 convention, which since 1998 has been enforced by the international court based in Strasbourg, Germany.
Diane Pretty, who had sought permission for her husband to kill her without fear of prosecution, had previously lost in a British trial court and before the law lords of the House of Lords, who serve as Great Britain?s highest domestic court.
The European court?s opinion, by chamber President Matti Pellonpaa, warned, ?It is not hard to imagine that an elderly person, in the absence of any pressure, might opt for a premature end to life if that were available, not from a desire to die or a willingness to stop living, but from a desire to stop being a burden to others.?
The court determined that the convention?s guarantee of the right to life does not, as Pretty argued, include a right to end life. ?The thrust of [the guarantee] is to reflect the sanctity which, particularly in western eyes, attaches to life. ... An article with that effect cannot be interpreted as conferring a right to die or to enlist the aid of another in bringing about one?s own death.?
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