nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/c880f74ced2eeeb4 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 231103s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/c880f74ced2eeeb4 doi eng 342 23 Karsai, Dániel Author aut The Right To Die Like The Trees: Standing Karsai, Dániel Verfassungsblog 2023-11-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier My name is dr. Dániel András Karsai. I am a human rights attorney. I am also terminally ill. In August 2022, I was diagnosed with ALS. ALS is a so-called motor neurone disease. ALS leads to an extremely humiliating life situation, increasingly depriving you of independence. For reasons unknown to medical science, this disease causes nerve cells that move the muscles to deteriorate, leading to muscle atrophy and ultimately complete paralysis. At the end of the disease, respiratory functions also cease, resulting in death by asphyxiation. The final stage of the disease is virtually a vegetative existence, without any possibility of conscious activity or communication. For me, this form of existence is devoid of all meaning and dignity. In this situation, I firmly believe in the arguable claim to demand the right to end my life with dignity instead of enduring meaningless suffering. CC BY-SA 4.0 European Court of Human Rights right to assisted suicide Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-right-to-die-like-the-trees-standing/ raw object