• Title/Summary/Keyword: 씨 인사이드

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Ramon Sampedro: Finding the Right to Die with Dignity - Focused on Alejandro Amenabar's Movie <Sea Inside>- (라몬 삼페드로: 존엄하게 죽을 권리를 찾아서 -알레한드로 아메나바르의 영화 <씨 인사이드> 를 중심으로-)

  • Donggiun Kim
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 2024
  • In this article, this study examines the issue of "Physician-assisted Suicide" and how Ramon Sampedro asserts his right to a dignified death through litigation. Ramon, the protagonist of the movie <The Sea Inside> is a patient, severely paralyzed man who has spent more than 26 years in bed. The only thing he can do is verbally ask his family for help. Ramon can no longer support this worthless existence, so he pursues death with dignity. Ramon files a lawsuit to authorize death with dignity within a legal framework, but is denied on the grounds that life is a duty. Ramon eventually fulfills his desire for death with dignity with the help of his friends. Ramon sets up a camera to document the process of his death and introduces the cyanide, which is used in assisted dying, by inhaling cyanide in front of the camera and dying quietly. Although Ramon is not a terminally ill patient, who can blame him for practicing death with dignity as he chooses to do so. We will need to work to build social consensus and legislate for death with dignity for seriously ill patients like Ramon.