- Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment Interventions: The Philosophical and Ethical Aspects of Death and Dying
Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment Interventions: The Philosophical and Ethical Aspects of Death and Dying
International Journal Rehabilitation and Palliative Medicine. 2023. 1(8): 135-136; doi 10.15574/IJRPM.2023.8.135
Berezkina V. V.
Shupyk National University of Healthcare of Ukraine, Kyiv
The provision of a burdensome treatment (therapeutic obstinacy, or “heroic treatment”) that has the sole purpose of artificially prolonging the patient’s life is a major interdisciplinary problem in modern medicine (biomedicine). The author discusses two opposing trends in addressing this issue such as medicalisation of death and dying, on the one hand, and existential concerns about death, on the other hand.
No conflict of interests was declared by the author.
Keywords: medicalisation of death and dying, existential concerns about death, avoiding «therapeutic obstinacy».
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