This article considers the content of the right to refuse life-prolonging medical treatment under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as well as the supervision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) of domestic legal regimes for refusing life-prolonging treatment. I argue, employing doctrinal and philosophical analyses, that developments in the Convention jurisprudence with regard to the protection of private life under article 8 ECHR imply a substantively extensive right to refuse life-prolonging treatment, both contemporaneously and in advance. Moreover, I suggest that there is sufficient consensus among Council of Europe Member States on the right to refuse life-prolonging treatment to engage ECtHR supervision of states’ legal frameworks for such refusals. In addition, or in the alternative, I advance that the Strasbourg court may scrutinise Member States’ legal arrangements for refusals of life-prolonging treatment in virtue of the positive obligations to secure respect for private life that inhere in article 8 ECHR.

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拒绝延长生命的医疗和欧洲人权公约

本文考虑了欧洲人权公约（ECHR）下的拒绝延长生命医疗权的内容，以及欧洲人权法院（ECtHR）对拒绝延长生命的国内法律制度的监督。治疗。我认为，运用教义和哲学分析，《公约》关于根据《欧洲人权公约》第 8 条保护私人生活的判例的发展意味着一项实质性广泛的权利，可以同时和事先拒绝延长生命的治疗。此外，我建议欧洲委员会成员国之间就拒绝延长生命治疗的权利达成足够的共识，以便让欧洲人权法院对此类拒绝的国家法律框架进行监督。此外，或作为替代，