Sentencia del Pleno del Tribunal Constitucional 19/2023, de 22 de marzo. Recurso de inconstitucionalidad frente a diversos preceptos de la Ley Orgánica 3/2021, de 24 de marzo, de regulación de la eutanasia: Sobre el derecho de autodeterminación para decidir libre, informada y conscientemente el modo y momento de morir en un contexto eutanásico

Sobre el derecho de autodeterminación para decidir libre, informada y conscientemente el modo y momento de morir en un contexto eutanásico

Abstract

The jurisprudential review analyzes the terms in which the Constitutional Court delimits the so-called "right of self-determination" to decide in a free, informed and conscious manner the manner and moment of death in medically contrasted situations of terminal or seriously incapacitating illnesses. The article specifies the object subject to jurisdictional control of constitutionality, signifying the constitutional support of the "provision of assistance in dying" as an individual subjective public right, of legal configuration and of a benefit nature, directly linked to the right to physical and moral integrity, the right not to suffer inhuman or degrading treatment and with the recognition of the right to private life within the framework of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).