This article addresses the controversy surrounding end-of-life management, based on an analysis of the Public Civil Suit, brought by the Federal Prosecutor's Office, which aimed to revoke the Federal Medical Council's Resolution 1805/2006 about orthothanasia. The reflection about the discourses in the judicial proceedings, in defense of each position (for and against the legal authorization of orthothanasia), makes it possible to understand the threads and social actors involved in contemporary debates about the limits of life, the possibilities for medical intervention and the rights to individual autonomy, in face of the decision making process during the last stage of life, in the case of a person suffering the terminal phase of a chronic degenerative disease.
Religious Values; Life; Decision Making