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Right to Life A person's right to life corresponds to a duty of others not to kill him. Now rights can be waived or renounced, and if that happens others no longer have a duty on the ground not to kill him. However, it could be argued that people don't regard the prohibition of killing as absolute. It can be thought that there can be justified wars or justified capital punishment, or that killing in self-defence, or defence of others is justified. Then in general the thought would be that the reason we ought not to kill is that life is a person's most precious possession. This possession, the 'right to life' is protected by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It is defined as the law which deals with the protection of individuals and group against violations by governments of their internationally guaranteed rights, and with the promotion of theses...

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