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  • Palliative Care Research

Background:

  • A common perception exists within palliative care that euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are fundamentally incompatible with its principles.
  • This perception may stem from a misunderstanding of the core tenets and goals of palliative care.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To challenge the notion that palliative care and euthanasia/assisted suicide are mutually exclusive.
  • To demonstrate the compatibility of euthanasia and assisted suicide with the philosophy and practice of palliative care.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical argumentation and ethical analysis.
  • Examination of the stated aims of palliative care.
  • Analysis of the physician's role and the concept of patient abandonment in the context of end-of-life choices.

Main Results:

  • The core aims of palliative care are found to be consistent with those of euthanasia and assisted suicide.
  • Euthanasia and assisted suicide are argued to be compatible with the physician's role as a healer.
  • These end-of-life options are not inherently acts of patient abandonment.

Conclusions:

  • The perceived incompatibility between palliative care and euthanasia/assisted suicide is contested.
  • Palliative care principles can encompass or coexist with carefully considered practices of euthanasia and assisted suicide.
  • Re-evaluation of ethical frameworks is suggested to integrate these concepts.