nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200331-133213-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200331s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200331-133213-0 doi eng 342 23 Hong, Mathias Author aut Corona-Triage and Human Dignity - On the Limits of Balancing Life Against Life Hong, Mathias Verfassungsblog 2020-03-31 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Coronavirus Human Dignity Triage Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/corona-triage-and-human-dignity/ raw object