The Research Of Decriminalization Of Abandoning Therapy

Abandoning therapy is a common phenomenon for various places in the world.According to its implementation in different occasions, sometimes it would relate topeople’s right to live directly. However, mostly, for it is based on some unchangeablefacts(like incurable disease), most of the countries take a passive attitude and seldomsupervise the behavior with corresponding laws. With the development of society, thesocial values is also changing. In recent years, there are more and more social eventshave been appeared because of the abandoning therapy behaviors. The disputes socialproblems such as how to place the abandoning treatment and whether it should be turnedinto legalized from the present uncared-for situation are more and more being attachedattention to. To the decriminalization of abandoning therapy, solely with the currentconstitute four elements of committing crimes in China are not able to fully solve problemsfor this social moral contacting closely behavior. We should focus on the objectivezurechungs such as illegality, conformity, accountability, give consideration to the value ofmodern criminal law and the aim of penalty and give a all-round thoroughly discussion tothe theoretical foundation of decriminalization of abandoning therapy. According to thecommon tolerant attitude to the abandoning therapy in our country as well as thereference of foreign research and its implementation on abandoning therapy, we can givea realistic foundation analysis and a further discussion on legalization and feasibility ofabandoning therapy in China.