Bioethic of consolation

Authors

  • José Luis del Barco Author Universidad de Málaga

Abstract

When one is between life and the other life, when healing is not possible, palliative medicine and even more the bioethical principle of relieving pain and always consoling, becomes a pillar for medical behavior.

Nowadays, medicine has observed that consoling the sick and the emphasis on palliative treatment have opened new possibilities of taking care of the dying.

Nevertheless, to deny the presence of death or to apply technology uselessly, impedes the bioethics of consolation, and also generates the fatalism that leads to euthanasia. Consolidation is valid in a contingent world, born from a free lovely and creative act. To console makes sense in an accidental and free world because consolidation is the universal harmony among everything in creation.

The author also discusses the role of consolation as the recognition of the other as a person, and distinguishes between therapeutic and spiritual consolation. The latter might be related to Bioethics as being oriented toward helping people die whit dignity.

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Author Biography

José Luis del Barco, Universidad de Málaga

Miembro fundador de la Sociedad Andaluza de Bioética, miembro de la Sociedad Española de Bioética, miembro del Consejo científico de la revista Bioética y Ciencias de la Salud, editor, colaborador y director adjunto del número de anuario Filosófico sobre Cuestiones de Bioética, Profesor de Bioética Fundamental de Master de Bioética que imparte la facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Murcia.

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How to Cite

del Barco, J. L. (2009). Bioethic of consolation. Persona Y Bioética, (3), 25–42. Retrieved from https://personaybioetica.unisabana.edu.co/index.php/personaybioetica/article/view/613

Issue

No. 3 (1998)

Section

Reflection Article

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