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    This document discusses issues surrounding dignity in death and dying. It outlines objectives to describe issues in dignity in death and dying, discuss nurses' roles and responsibilities in these situations, and evaluate acts concerning dignity in end-of-life care. The document discusses euthanasia and distinguishing it from refusing burdensome treatment. It also discusses dysthanasia as prolonging the dying process without quality of life through futile treatment, and orthothanasia as not artificially prolonging death beyond the natural process through passive measures.

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    This document discusses issues surrounding dignity in death and dying. It outlines objectives to describe issues in dignity in death and dying, discuss nurses' roles and responsibilities in these situations, and evaluate acts concerning dignity in end-of-life care. The document discusses euthanasia and distinguishing it from refusing burdensome treatment. It also discusses dysthanasia as prolonging the dying process without quality of life through futile treatment, and orthothanasia as not artificially prolonging death beyond the natural process through passive measures.

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    This document discusses issues surrounding dignity in death and dying. It outlines objectives to describe issues in dignity in death and dying, discuss nurses' roles and responsibilities in these situations, and evaluate acts concerning dignity in end-of-life care. The document discusses euthanasia and distinguishing it from refusing burdensome treatment. It also discusses dysthanasia as prolonging the dying process without quality of life through futile treatment, and orthothanasia as not artificially prolonging death beyond the natural process through passive measures.

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    Dignity in Death and Dying

    OBJECTIVES:
    At the end of the lesson, TSSBAT:

    Describe issues in dignity in death and dying

    Discuss roles and responsibilities of nurses in


    these situations

    Evaluate acts in given situations concerning


    dignity in death and dying
    Law permitted act of
    administering painless death
    to dying or terminally ill
    patient
    “Mercy Killing”
    How do you see
    Euthanasia?
    The Gospel of Life “Evangelium vitae” by John Paul II
     Euthanasia must be distinguished from the decision to forego so-called "aggressive
    medical treatment", in other words, medical procedures which no longer correspond to
    the real situation of the patient, either because they are by now disproportionate to any
    expected results or because they impose an excessive burden on the patient and his
    family. In such situations, when death is clearly imminent and inevitable, one can in
    conscience "refuse forms of treatment that would only secure a precarious and
    burdensome prolongation of life, so long as the normal care due to the sick person in
    similar cases is not interrupted".77 Certainly there is a moral obligation to care for oneself
    and to allow oneself to be cared for, but this duty must take account of concrete
    circumstances. It needs to be determined whether the means of treatment available are
    objectively proportionate to the prospects for improvement. To forego extraordinary or
    disproportionate means is not the equivalent of suicide or euthanasia; it rather expresses
    acceptance of the human condition in the face of death. 78
    Dysthanasia

     Opposite of euthanasia
     “BAD death”
     slow and painful death without quality of life
     is the term for futile or useless treatment,
    which does not benefit a terminal patient. It is
    a process through which one merely extends
    the dying process and not life per se.
    Orthothanasia
    It means not prolonging artificially the
    death process beyond what would
    be the natural process.
    “CORRECT death”
    “facing death at the right time”
    Same as “passive euthanasia”
    To sum things up….

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