in Monteria, Colombia.
Ending the Year, comment a little about the best we've read in 2009.
probably be something in the pipeline ...
I. legal literature:
II. not legal literature:
- "Punitive damages", Edgardo López Herrera
- "Light Man", Enrique Rojas "
-" Poor my fatherland, "Marcos Aguinis
* Actually came out in April 2009.
** Not published in 2009.
Man is a being biologically inert, but develops in several dimensions: cultural, spiritual, social, emotional ... The full life is the development of all these dimensions.
What happens is that the law must protect not only irrationally biological life at all costs, but should not neglect it, as it is essential for the development of the other dimensions.
With regard to the availability of life can not be said that life is absolutely unavailable (just think of mountain sports, surgeries and other risks assumed by men in their daily lives), nor absolutely available.
What one can argue, is the right to human dignity, and also recognize that there are cases in which the dignity prevail over life, and others that something will happen exactly reverse. That is, there will be the case.
For example, in cases where the necessary medical treatments appear disproportionate (those not justified the relationship between sacrifice and pain imposed on the patient and the expectation a favorable outcome), should prevail over the dignity of life. This is because the law can not force a person to bear the unbearable, to suffer cruelty, to see degraded their dignity, to adjourn briefly to life.