He has been demanding the right to euthanasia for seven years. Now the man will appeal to the Constitutional Court

I want people like you with permanent damage to their health to have the opportunity to decide whether they want to die according to the pain, to declare.

According to Milan Hamerskho from the Association for Legal Euthanasia, the constitutional court should assess whether the criminal code does not conflict with the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. He should give politicians the opportunity to adopt the first right to allow assisted end-of-life assistance, he said. He added that there is no immediate need for a new law dealing with euthanasia. According to him, the criminal code should be changed.

The Nejvy court overturned Bartheldi’s fate in January of this year. He stated that there is no de jure possibility of euthanasia or assisted suicide in R. Hamersk agrees with that. However, he considers the argument of the Supreme Court to be scandalous, according to which life and health are considered such important values ​​that when it comes to a specific hunter, the social interest affects their protection before the individual is free to decide.

The owner of the deed R is an individual and his first is guaranteed by the deed R, he stated in the deed. Bartheldi vn refers in particular to the decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe from November 2020, which, according to him, came to the conclusion that the first human dignity is also the first freedom to decide about one’s death, including the possibility to decide to die with the help of these persons.

The Supreme Court took leave, because it considered the given question to be unresolved in the jurisprudence, but in the end it dismissed the motion. Hamersk hopes that S will consider the question so important that he will not refuse the truth. It is the first time that this problem has come before the constitutional court, he said.

Bartheldi filed a criminal complaint for interference with personal integrity to the court in Pardubice in 2018. He stated that he did not want to do so, partly because of his health condition, pain and poor prognosis, but also because of his disagreement with the regime in the Czech Republic. he declared life in it to be subjectively unbearable.

In some countries, euthanasia is legal. the Czech parliament has not yet approved similar proposals. Public support, however, increases. According to a survey published last year by the Center for Public Opinion Research of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Lithuania, 73 percent of respondents agreed with euthanasia, which is the highest since 2007, when the center started asking about this issue.

The association’s goal is to draft a separate law on euthanasia, such as the draft law on palliative care, decision-making at the end of life and euthanasia prepared from 2020, which was drafted by senator Vra Prochzkov (ANO).