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This paper is a bioethical approach to the contemporary experience of dying, with a particular concern for the difficulty of dying persons for appropriating and living meaningfully this event. The main structural traits of contemporary death are exposed, such as the role of technology and institutions, the transformation of death in a ware, and the type of concealment and depersonalization due to it. From there on some criteria will be proposed to “save” death, such as a solidary understanding of autonomy, a relationship with economical responsibility in discussions on justice and access to sanitary goods, and a critical reflection from the viewpoint of those who are victims of technological processes and of the commodification of life and death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research, mainly that involving human beings, in many circumstances is associated to risk, even peril, specially when abuses affecting fundamental rights of persons like life or integrity are progressively discovered. In this paper we analyze the context which favors the fact that regulations and controls over research protocols allow violation of Human Rights. The bioethical reference framework is the human rights declarations made by UN in relation to the Declaration of Helsinki, regarded as the standard with widest procedural acceptance and moral credibility in the history of international standards in the field of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among the third generation of human rights, the appeal for a diachronic solidarity between the human community and the extra-human natural world, and for a synchronstic one between the community of living human beings and hypothetical members of future human generations, has a significant place. This paper analyzes from a critical perspective the reasons for and against this proposal of duties and inter-generational ethical obligations in the context of a techno-scientific civilization, with the aim of grounding the current generation's responsibility regarding the elaboration of a global ethics that could face the demands of future generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]