civil rights and civil liberties
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]
right to die
human rights
patient rights
concepts
rights and freedoms