You are so correct. If it’s a right, then government cannot take it away (which we all know they will when your life becomes “not worth living” — there is a German expression for that that came out of Nazi Germany). I cannot remember it just now.
Literally, "life unworthy of life". It predates the Nazi regime; the phrase was coined by Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche in a book published in 1920.
Literally, "life unworthy of life". It predates the Nazi regime; the phrase was coined by Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche in a book published in 1920.