The right to life and health is not an individual right. The right to life and health is a kind of personality right. Divided into the right to life and health. The right to life is the premise of citizens' existence as human beings and sovereignty as rights, and it is also the basis for citizens to exercise other civil rights. The existence of life and the enjoyment of the right to life are the highest personal interests of everyone. Personal rights include personality rights and identity rights. The concept of personality right refers to the civil rights that citizens and legal persons with legally independent personality must enjoy, including the rights of life and health, body, name, portrait, reputation and privacy. The concept of identity right is the right that citizens and legal persons enjoy when they have a specific identity. Civil rights include the right of honor, copyright, guardianship and the right of identity in marriage and family relations.
Legal analysis
Article 990 of the Civil Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) is the right to life, body, health, name, portrait, reputation, honor and privacy enjoyed by civil subjects. In addition to the personality rights stipulated in the preceding paragraph, natural persons enjoy other personality rights based on personal freedom and personal dignity.