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Devem os cuidados paliativos/acompanhamento ser a resposta contra a eutanásia? A resposta é Não! Os cuidados paliativos são uma resposta entre muitas outras respostas nos cuidados de a saúde que tem a sua especificidade e especialidade nas situações no acaso de uma doença incurável ou em fim de vida. Nunca podem ser uma resposta contra a eutanásia, mas um serviço para quem dele precisa. Tempos houve em que o médico pouco podia fazer pelas pessoas que adoeciam e, na constância do seu adoecer, morriam. Mas os tempos mudaram muito. E hoje o médico já não medita à cabeceira do doente que vai morrer. É necessário cultivar na prática médica e de enfermagem atual, muito científica e muito agressiva, até poder ser, ela própria mortífera, que haja quem olhe para a pessoa doente e se debruce diante dela. A eutanásia é, na sua falsa roupagem jurídica, a expressão mais forte da cultura da morte. Os cuidados paliativos/acompanhamento, como vivencia relacional amorosa e humanista são, por sua vez, a floração mais humana da cultura da vida, porque ninguém pede para morrer, mas para deixar de sofrer.
Should palliative care/accompaniment be the answer against euthanasia? The answer is no! Palliative care is an answer among many other responses in health care. Palliative care has its specificity in situations in incurable disease or end of life. They can never be an answer against euthanasia, but a service for those who need it. There was a time when the doctor could do little for people who became ill and they died. Now, we see that times have changed and today the doctor is no longer at the bedside of the patient who is dying. It is urgent to cultivate, in actual medical and nursing practice, a different look at the sick person. Euthanasia is, in its false legal shape, the strongest expression of the culture of death. Palliative care-accompaniment, as a loving and humanistic relational experience. They are the most human flowering of the culture of life, since no one asks to die, but to stop suffering.
Should palliative care/accompaniment be the answer against euthanasia? The answer is no! Palliative care is an answer among many other responses in health care. Palliative care has its specificity in situations in incurable disease or end of life. They can never be an answer against euthanasia, but a service for those who need it. There was a time when the doctor could do little for people who became ill and they died. Now, we see that times have changed and today the doctor is no longer at the bedside of the patient who is dying. It is urgent to cultivate, in actual medical and nursing practice, a different look at the sick person. Euthanasia is, in its false legal shape, the strongest expression of the culture of death. Palliative care-accompaniment, as a loving and humanistic relational experience. They are the most human flowering of the culture of life, since no one asks to die, but to stop suffering.
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Keywords
Autoconsciência Cuidados paliativos Eutanásia Self-awareness Palliative care Euthanasia
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Gome, C. C., Jácomo, A. (2020). Porquê o cuidado paliativo. Revista Portuguesa de Bioética: Cadernos de Bioética, 25(26), pp. 45-54
Publisher
Centro de Estudos de Bioética