ABSTRACT
Politics can impact on death directly or indirectly; let us see the several cases in this order. Direct impact occurs in war, civil war, terrorism, nuclear war. Death, as a principal if not exclusive element of power, attains its peak in terrorism, which is insofar the opposite of politics as temporary settler of conflicts and provider of some peaceful order. In group terrorism in the second half of the twentieth century, inflicting death on alleged enemies and 'culprits' or among civilians has been the political tool of choice, be it with an ethnic or an ideological motivation. The appropriate location for highlighting the connection of wrong or omitted legislation with the unnecessary death of citizens is public debate, including parliamentary proceedings, which all too often deals with the protection of economic interests of smaller or larger groups and seldom with the incidence of legislation and its timing on the death or life of persons.
