No right to physician-assisted death for applicant with motor neurone disease (ECtHR)
![Image](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDskKE3EsMdrgmtPTxfn5DNicWSnaR9w8F0YnzjyIc3raxizgxRpQqiLLCJsxpxkrKpYeJuhg97ejetzFtTkBjEJUpX0etxrZVKQZqcX6R_LvLZo60N-T19aawRQN9VIXFRGiusy237D1aage2KaWFCy4F8FmWU41_YX45W-rXAom3yJqM_XNDrM603-8/w461-h282/view-3d-justice-gavel.jpg)
In Chamber's judgment in the case of Daniel Karsai v. Hungary (application no. 32312/23) the European Court of Human Rights held, by 6 votes to 1, that there had been no violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights; and no violation of Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) in conjunction with Article 8. The case concerned the question of the asserted right to self-determined death of the applicant, who is a Hungarian national and has advanced amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) a type of motor neurone disease with no known cure. He would like to be able to decide when and how to die before his illness reaches a stage that he finds intolerable. He would need assistance, but anyone assisting him would risk prosecution, even if he died in a country which allowed physician-assisted dying. He complained of not being able to end his life with the help of others and of discrimination compared to terminally ill pati