Abstract
Euthanasia ('Good Death') and dysthanasia are medical procedures that concern the death of the human being and the most appropriate way of dealing with it. Euthanasia is primarily concerned with the quality of human life in its final phase, while dysthanasia seeks the extension of the human life quantity, fighting death. Euthanasia differs from social euthanasia, or misthanasia (miserable death) because it has no relation with the search for a good, smooth and painless death. Orthothanasia (art of well-dying) rejects all forms of misthanasia, yet does not fall into the trap of euthanasia or dysthanasia. There is a link between the economic devaluation of human beings and the cultural tendency that is increasingly emphasized in refusing the will of the right to live for those who are too weak to demand this right.
Highlights
With the increase in life expectancy, discussions about the possibility of intervening in the life cycle, accelerating or extending the moment of death, were reinvigorated, perhaps being one of the central questions of ethics applied to health [1].Traditionally there is strong resistance from health professionals to life interruption, on the grounds that the medical function is to save lives
Euthanasia within a modern concept cannot be contemplated with the dominant values of the Christian morality
This moral is incorporated by the norms of health accepted by the majority of health professionals
Summary
With the increase in life expectancy, discussions about the possibility of intervening in the life cycle, accelerating or extending the moment of death, were reinvigorated, perhaps being one of the central questions of ethics applied to health [1]. There is strong resistance from health professionals to life interruption, on the grounds that the medical function is to save lives. There is a great incongruity in this claim, since the “detachment of the apparatus” so that “life goes on its course”, known as passive euthanasia, is considered a routine procedure [1]. We will seek in this article to define euthanasia as well as orthatanasia, misthanasia and dysthanasia for from this to discuss the different philosophical, moral and ethical visions that surround the theme and to present alternatives to the practice and discussions of some cases
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