Palliative medicine before euthanasia
Astudillo Alarcón, W.; Mendinueta Aguirre, C.; Astudillo Alarcón, E.
Revista de Medicina de la Universidad de Navarra 38(1): 51-59
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0556-6177 PMID: 8711311 Document Number: 412443
Paliative Medicine offers many possibilities to reach a good control of the bothering symptoms of terminal patients and to the support of their families. We review the different causes of suffering, suicide and of request of euthanasia as the process of Medical Decision-Making in the care of the Dying. It is necessary to search for ways to reduce the suffering and to improve the quality of life that remains instead of how to finish it earlier.