civil rights and civil liberties
type: Concept
narrower: right to die

right to die
definition: Supreme Court rulings that deal with the rights of persons to end their own lives. Since about the 1970s, advances in medicine have allowed the “human body [to be kept] alive for longer than any reasonable person would want to inhabit it,” as Justice Antonin Scalia put it. [Source: Student's Guide to the Supreme Court; Right to Die]
broader: rights and freedoms
broader: patient rights
broader: human rights
broader: civil rights and civil liberties
type: Concept

human rights
type: Concept
narrower: right to die

patient rights
type: Concept
narrower: right to die

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: right to die

rights and freedoms
type: Concept
narrower: right to die