Abstract. The article highlights the main positions for and against the legalization of euthanasia as a human right to death from different perspectives - social, religious, legal, and moral and ethical. Ukraine, as a democratic state, must comply with the international acts it has ratified and pay attention to the trends in Europe and the world, borrowing from the positive experience of these countries.
This article analyzes the norms of international and national legislation concerning the right of
individuals to life and health protection, through the lens of their practical implementation.
The article deals with certain aspects of the protection of the right to life in the context of
contemporary risks. In particular, the use of the death penalty, artificial termination of
pregnancy (abortion), which is relevant to issues of morality, religion and medicine, the use of
euthanasia as a deprivation of life, the deprivation of life resulting from the absolutely
necessary use of force on the basis were studied of the analysis of domestic and foreign
experience.