“Homicidio piedoso” – o direito a uma morte digna: analise da legalidade da eutanasia frente a juncao do direito a vida com o principio constitucional da dignidade da Pessoa humana = “Homicidio piedoso” – the right to a dignified death: analysis of euthanasias’s legality in front of the combination of the right to life with the constitutional principle of human dignity

Euthanasia is a procedure through which the doctor, based on the patient’s will, end their life. In Brazil, it is considered an affront against the right to life. On this research, it was taken an opposite direction to the one that is followed in the country by analyzing euthanasia not as an instrument to take a human being’s life, but as a defense means to end of life dignity which has death as a secondary effect. Uniting the right to life and the human dignity principle, it was understood that the individual in a terminal condition, that suffers in a way to consider that their dignity is being violated, has the autonomy of deciding about their death, opting for an end of life fast and without suffering.