Abstract
Abstract The need for a critical and analytical approach to the ethics of terminal care is suggested by considering a series of unexamined questions regarding the justification of terminal care. Among them are: (1) Do patients have a right to terminal care? (2) What qualifies personnel to provide terminal caref (3) Do we really know what “care,” a “good death,” or “accepting one's death” mean? (4) Are assumptions about the hospice model contradictory to the demands of scientific research? If terminal care is, as many seem to believe, a moral and ethical enterprise, then such considerations must be given a more prominent place in discussions of the hospice movement.
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