| With rapid development of medical science and technology today,the quality of patient’s death has become an important part of the happiness index,every conscious,rational people all hope to be able to finish the last journey of life with dignity.Euthanasia and death with dignity are ways to choose death state,they both have advantages and disadvantages.Euthanasia and death with dignity are based on the rights of the patient autonomy,but they are different in degree,as active aspect compared to the negative aspect.From the ethical perspective,it is hard to say which is more important.Positive autonomy inevitably lead to ethical questions of life,and the behavior of the facilitator may constitute a crime,so the euthanasia can’t be legalized in many countries.Death with dignity,by contrast,required easier social conditions,risks of be abusedare more controllable,negative autonomy by ethics question also relatively moderate,therefore more and more countries and regions accept and legalize it.Even death with dignity compared with euthanasia has certain comparative advantage,but it still faces some objective problems,such as ineffective medical boundaries and how to determine the patient to decide when to how to regulate by external intervention and so on.At present,China’s mainland area has no legislation died on death with dignity,but the realization of the autonomy of patients can’t be put on hold,related mechanism of the construction work to be carried out.Therefore,on the basis of the evolution of extraterritorial legislation experience for reference,combined with the actual situation in our country,for "living wills" how to implement,hospice care,how to improve and other issues were discussed,to explore possible and feasible system construction,make patient autonomy in legal rights before still has the potential to achieve. |