Differences between death principles and dying are explored in Bill C-14, Canada’s draft law on medical support in death. The law is probably the outcome of a shift in bioethical concepts from dignity to conditional sanctity of human life to life quality. Life has inherent value, per the sacredness of life premise.
This principle condemns actual murder in passive and active manifestations based on orthodox Christian teachings. Life is viewed as a steward or lease from the Almighty, and only the Creator has the strength to continue or die.
According to religion and ethics, the impermissibility of existence, or lifetime value, is an implied protection principle about parts of perceptive existence that are believed to be sacred or essential and should not undergo violations.
Conferring to the competent holiness of life code, one cannot aggressively and purposefully hasten demise or stop natural death. As a result, treatment might be skipped, permitting death to proceed “naturally.”
In contrast, the superiority of life concept allows for the deliberate hastening of death through acts of error (withholding or ceasing treatment) or command (prescribing overindulges or ordering lethal injections).
Though the excellence of life attitude is nowadays the prevalent attitude, it took time for people to adopt it, primarily to changing societal perceptions of intentional death, as evidenced by legal papers and case law.