http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200331-133213-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/corona-triage-and-human-dignity/ Corona-Triage and Human Dignity - On the Limits of Balancing Life Against Life Hong, Mathias eng 2020-03-31 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Coronavirus Human Dignity Triage Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Does the duty to protect human life have an essence of dignity? The „triage“ of COVID-19-patients, i.e. their sorting due to scarce treatment capacities, raises this question. The answer is yes: It would violate the state's duty to protect human dignity, for example, if the state gave orders to save not as many lives as possible, but as many young people as possible.