BIOMEDICINSKI I MORALNO-ETIČKI ASPEKTI DISTANAZIJE. U AGONIJI UMIRANJA PRED MEDICINSKOM BESKORISNOŠĆU
BIOMEDICAL AND MORAL-ETHICAL ASPECTS OF DYSTHANASIA. IN THE AGONY OF DYING BEFORE THE MEDICAL FUTILITY
Author(s): Suzana VuletićSubject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Evaluation research, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Katolički bogoslovni fakultet u Đakovu
Keywords: dysthanasia; medical f/utility; therapeutic persistence/perseverance; terminal stage; intensive care; dis/proportional means; the quality of life/dying; orthotanasia; palliative care;
Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to present moral-bio-ethical, medical and legal dilemmas of biomedical progress which has with its amazing technological development prompted numerous concerns about the capabilities of un/limited prolongation of the final stage of human life. The progress in medical care for terminal patients has made it possible to keep them alive for a relatively long time, but all the more apparent is the absurdity of such interventions, especially in situations marked by painful and unbearable agony of prolonged process dying and gradual cancellation of all life functions of a dying person, whose life is gradually fading away, but with interventions of aggressive-intensive therapeutic persistence they are forced to a physiological life-support.
Journal: Diacovensia: teološki prilozi
- Issue Year: 22/2014
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 163-200
- Page Count: 38
- Language: Croatian