期刊名称：Socijalna ekologija - Journal for Environmental Thought and Sociological Research
印刷版ISSN：1330-0113
出版年度：2007
卷号：16
期号：2-3
页码：215-229
出版社：Croatian Sociological Society, Institute of Sociology at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb
摘要：In the healthcare system, evaluation of the quality of life seems to be a very important factor. However, there is no such measure to evaluate the quality of life on the basis of which one could reliably identify those patients who feel that «life is not worth living». The dilemma about the quality of life is particularly actualized when one is supposed to decide whether to end a pregnancy due to severe malformations of the fetus, when one has to decide on how to treat newborn children with life‐incompatible anomalies, in case of refusal of life‐saving medical treatments, in case of permanent vegetative states and in case of competent or incompetent personʹs decision making at the end of oneʹs life. In recent bioethical studies, distasia (prolongation of agony, suffering and postponement of death) has been less argued‐ it was rather direct or indirect euthanasia that was dealt with. Numerous bioethicists think that ortothanasia is between the two extremes, which comprises a dignified death without shortening of life but also devoid of further suffering. The medical duty of pain alleviation is actually an improvement of the patientʹs quality of life in its terminal stage by means of palliative care.
关键词：the quality of life; bioethics; distanasia; euthanasia
