God

by Ferdinand von Schirach

Mrs. Gärtner has only one wish left: she wants to die! Her beloved husband died of cancer years ago and life no longer makes sense to her anyway. She has been denied a drug that would allow her to die in a self-determined way.


Now her case is to be decided in principle by the Ethics Council. Legal, medical and theological experts are arguing passionately about the question: Do people have a right to self-determined death? Are doctors allowed to assist in suicide? And who actually owns our lives? To us? To the state? God?


How do we want to live? And how do we want to die? The wish to pass away painlessly in familiar surroundings - we all know it. But how often is it fulfilled? What can we hope for?


We want to die with dignity. But illness, accidents, war, hunger, despair - biological or external causes can rob us of the dignity we hope for in our final hours. But what if we could decide the end of our lives ourselves?