Suicide is a major global public health problem, but rarely is the subject viewed as a human right. With the sole exception of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), no international authority has taken a strong position on whether a human right to suicide exists. Even that court’s jurisprudence goes no further than intimating that such a right falls within the scope of the human right to private life. This essay tackles the question of whether there is a human right to suicide under existing international law and, if so, what are its sources and limits. It concludes with an analysis of what obligations, both negative and positive, a right to suicide would impose on the state.

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国际法下的自杀人权

自杀是一个主要的全球公共卫生问题，但很少被视为一项人权。除欧洲人权法院 (ECtHR) 外，没有任何国际权威机构对是否存在自杀人权采取强硬立场。甚至该法院的判例也只是暗示这种权利属于私人生活人权的范围。本文探讨了现有国际法是否存在自杀人权的问题，如果存在，其来源和限制是什么。最后，它分析了自杀权会给国家带来的消极和积极的义务。