Análisis de la figura del Testamento Vital o Voluntad anticipada en la Legislación Ecuatoriana

Abstract

Anticipated Will, also known as Living Will, is a document in which individuals' will I stated to expressly and consciously set forth the desire of how to deal with a terminal illness or an accident depriving them of conscience and will. An individual as a way of preparing to deal with a possible accident that would deprive them of conscience; or suffering from a terminal illness that decreases both their intellectual and physical capacities, can leave stated in a document which is a unilateral contract of instructions such as: when to interrupt an artificial life; when to receive palliative treatment, and more actions one is willing to receive at this point which may also imply their way of feeling in order to be able to receive a worthy death In Ecuador there are no such wills, so foreigners who choose Cuenca as a city to spend their last days have to use similar legal entities to obtain a corresponding document, an affidavit. Therefore, a social and legal analysis must be carried out in order for this legal document to be accepted in the country.