Organisierte Suizidbeihilfe und ärztlich assistierter Suizid: Eine ethische Perspektive

The debate on physician assisted dying in Germany focuses on banning assisted suicide by organisations and legitimizing physician assisted suicide. In this respect suicide because of age, dementia and need for care is freed from taboos. Most of those suiciders who called for attendance by the organization "SterbeHilfeDeutschland e. V." motivated their wish to die by not wanting to live in a nursing home. From an ethical and therapeutic perspective human beings who wish to die should by be taken seriously and with respect, but they might have the right that someone contradicts the fulfilment of their suicidal intention. Thus the sense of life as a social phenomenon might be sustained.