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to decide what will and will not be done with one's own body (article 3) -- was central to the case. Article 2 requires states to prevent people being 'deprived of life'. It doesn't, however, require states to take positive steps to force life on the unwilling. Thus the court concluded that article 2 might permit the state to allow assisted suicide, but it does not require the state to allow it. The court also found that the act did not give people a right to die or oblige the state to assist that process.

If it did, the court argued, people attempting suicide could not be saved by medical intervention for fear that they would have a claim for wrongful life, and that outcome was contrary to public policy. The court also argued that the right in article 3 to be free from 'torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment' was a right to live with dignity, not to die with dignity. Taking active steps to bring life to a premature end was different from not taking futile and undignified steps to prolong life beyond its natural end. Lord Justice Turkey, in his judgment, said that all the indications were that democratic opinion in the United Kingdom was unready for a change on the issue of assisted suicide. He said there was no reason to suggest that the legitimate aims underlying the prohibition on assisting suicide had become less powerful since the 1961 Suicide Act was enacted, or that the current law was a disproportionate response to those aims. (n 1) The case came at a time when Belgium was set to become the second country in the word to legalize euthanasia.

Globalisation: health care and ethics Although globalization, as a term, is as ubiquitous as it is contested, there is none the less clear evidence that the market in health care is becoming steadily more international -- that national borders in this sphere are gradually becoming more porous. This process has taken on several recognisable concrete forms. Firstly there has been an acceleration in the migration of health care professionals. Doctors, in possession of highly marketable skills, have long been among the more mobile members of the workforce, moving in search of specialist training, to offer their skills in the developing world or to improve their standard of living. In recent years this process has been.