title: The indispensability of quality of life.
abstract: Is a value-judgement of human quality of life permissible, especially in view of the possibility of wishing to intentionally terminate this human life? In German bio-politics, this issue tends to be evaded. Problems that increasingly arise at the end as well as the beginning of a human life, however, render the discussion inevitable. In this context, the assumption that, as a matter of principle, judging the value of quality of life is incompatible with the concept of human dignity plays a central part. This premise would indicate that bio-ethical and bio-political debate threatens to revert to a state of rigid confrontation of factions that are both inflexible and unable to communicate.
authors.affiliation: Universitat Duisburg-Essen.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Quante
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life