El suicidio asistido por el médico
Abstract
Euthanasia is not only a medical issue. lt has been approved by many countries and has certain public acceptance. Its use predominates among cancer and depressed patients, and has been extended to children and psychiatric patients without compliance of minimum legal requirements.
Autonomy of the individual and suicide as the ultimate remedy to hopeless pain, are the arguments for approval of euthanasia.
lnvoked by ideological viewpoints, euthanasia is a boast of autonomy, which averts media practice. Pain care is inaccurate due to ignorance. Palliative care medicine offers adequate human alternatives for patients and relatives.
The core question relating this matter is why suffering?
Love and care are the only answers to pain. Clinical research data link poverty, loneliness, depression and suicide. Commercial purposes are in stake, and if dignity of life of one individual is ignored, the whole humankind is in danger of being subject of relativism.
Physician I; should treat mind as carefully as body to give a better care to terminally ill patients, without economical or social pressures, which avert the real meaning of life.
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