Palliative Care and Physician Assisted Death

• Authors: Sándor Kőmüves

Abstracts

EN

In the recent decade quite a few countries and regions legalised physician assisted death. While palliative care is already or becoming the standard end of life care in many countries, the increased availability of physician assisted death coupled with the secularisation of hospice in more settings require – where this has not happened yet – a clear response of palliative care specialists to patients’ requests for physician assisted death. The paper analyses the World Health Organisation’s current description of palliative care with a special focus on its prohibition of hastening death. Some palliative care professionals do not agree with the ban on hastening death, and these professionals’ non-conventional interpretation of palliative care actually seems to meet the wishes of some patients.

Keywords

EN

Palliative care; physician assisted death; euthanasia; physician assisted suicide; secularisation; responses to suffering

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Ethics in Progress
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 76-89

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Sándor Kőmüves

• University of Debrecen, Debrecen

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/eip.2022.2.6

Biblioteka Nauki

29433314