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2. Universal Principles
  
  Article 06- Living Men and Women  
6.1 Living Men and Women  
  The meaning and value of living men and women has been debated since the first civilizations.  
  To be a living man or woman is to be the living embodiment of the paradox of life and the absolute - to be capable of great feats of selflessness, compassion and love. To be capable of acts of terrible self-hate, evil and destruction.  
6.2 The right to a quality and dignified life  
  It is an essential principle of this Charter that all living men and women have a right to a quality and dignified life. This principle means more than a generalized statement of life regardless of what the quality or context.  
  It should be the right of an expectant mother to choose whether it is in her best interests to carry a baby to full term. It should be the absolute right of both parents of a severely physically incapacitated new born baby to choose to continue its life.  
  Laws or belief systems that enforce life without any consideration of the quality of life shall always considered barbaric, cruel and against the very meaning of life they claim to cherish.  
6.3 The right to die with dignity  
  It is an essential principle of this Charter that all living men and women have the right to choose to die with dignity.  
  Technology enables life to be sustained and perpetuated far beyond the scope of previous generations. With these gifts, living men and women can be saved and repaired. Yet it is also true that living men and women can be extended beyond a point whereby the quality of life is marginal.  
  A solitary bed in a hospital or elder care home should not become the standard path to which all our lives inevitably end. Instead, Our Society should strive to enable its members to die well just as they have lived well, in the comfort of home, in the presence of love, in a state of peace.  
  As a state must never arbitrate on the life and death of its citizens, it must rest on the choice of the individual to find a balance between life and science and the quality of personal life.  
  Belief systems or laws that make no consideration for the essential right of a man or woman to choose to die with dignity shall always be considered barbaric, cruel and against the very meaning of life and the principles of this Charter.  
     
 
 

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