What is the theory of "better dead than alive"?

"Better dead than alive" embodies the sanctity of life theory, which is a medical ethical view. It is the belief that life is sacrosanct and of supreme value.

The sanctity of life theory unconditionally advocates respect for life and care for life, from the moral point of view to strengthen the purpose of medicine to save lives and help the injured, for the formation and development of medical humanitarianism has laid the ideological foundation to promote the development of medicine and medical ethics progress. However, because the sanctity of life theory advocates the unconditional nature of respecting and caring for life, it thus ignores the sociological life and quality of life of human beings.

Social Policy Formulation

The sanctity of life theory as the theoretical basis for social policy formulation will inevitably lead to a preference for the quantity of human beings to the exclusion of the quality of life, which will result in the malignant expansion of the population and the decline of the quality of the population. Secondly, if only the value of individual life is emphasized to the neglect of the overall interests of mankind, it will inevitably affect the development of family planning and the fair distribution of health resources.