LEGALIZATION OF EUTHANASIA IN THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA AS A MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION – REALITY, PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

   An item on euthanasia legalization in the world, the European Union, particularly, in Bulgaria
and Russia has a manifold content, related to the level of development of a health care, national psychology of the people, their morality and values. The European member states lack a common position on euthanasia, but the debate is already begun, though it seems that a common position is impossible today. In some countries, including the Russian Federation and Bulgaria, there is regulation of the issues about euthanasia, while in Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg it is legal and officially put into practice. Complexity of the euthanasia debate that has seriously just begun in our country is related to the problem of society right to deprive someone of the opportunity for making a decision about his individual subjective right. Also it is closely related to the procedures of the realization of euthanasia and psychological aspects of the person’s roles, which take part in its implementation. On the whole it is dominate the cautious approach to this problem because of the differences of viewpoints and difficulties in finding more flexible legislative solutions.