[A suffering person's rights in the light of John Paul II's teaching].

The rights of a human being constitute the deepest basis of social obligations towards a suffering person. A list of these rights, apart from the basic right to live, enumerates many ithers. For a suffering person the most important ones are: the right to social welfare, protection against suffering, spiritual development. In John Paul IIs social teaching special emphasis is put on the issue of the rights of a suffering person, which constitutes a part of the civilisation of life which the Pope promulgates.