Abstract

Using the tool of the legal comparison, the present study aims to illustrate the main bioethical issues within Jewish, canonical and Muslim law for the purpose of analysing the limits that the three sacred rights place on today’s technical possibility. In particular, the article starts with investigating the auroral life of the fertilized egg and the embryo and it concludes with the crepuscular life of the dying person. By highlighting harmonies and disharmonies between the three religious rights and within them, the reader has the opportunity to walk along the paths of a forest made up of responsa from the rabbinic authorities, magisterial pronouncements and fatawa of Muslim jurists.