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Devem os cuidados paliativos/acompanhamento ser a resposta contra a eutanĂĄsia? A resposta Ă© NĂŁo! Os cuidados paliativos sĂŁo uma resposta entre muitas outras respostas nos cuidados de a saĂșde que tem a sua especificidade e especialidade nas situaçÔes no acaso de uma doença incurĂĄvel ou em fim de vida. Nunca podem ser uma resposta contra a eutanĂĄsia, mas um serviço para quem dele precisa. Tempos houve em que o mĂ©dico pouco podia fazer pelas pessoas que adoeciam e, na constĂąncia do seu adoecer, morriam. Mas os tempos mudaram muito. E hoje o mĂ©dico jĂĄ nĂŁo medita Ă cabeceira do doente que vai morrer. Ă necessĂĄrio cultivar na prĂĄtica mĂ©dica e de enfermagem atual, muito cientĂfica e muito agressiva, atĂ© poder ser, ela prĂłpria mortĂfera, que haja quem olhe para a pessoa doente e se debruce diante dela. A eutanĂĄsia Ă©, na sua falsa roupagem jurĂdica, a expressĂŁo mais forte da cultura da morte. Os cuidados paliativos/acompanhamento, como vivencia relacional amorosa e humanista sĂŁo, por sua vez, a floração mais humana da cultura da vida, porque ninguĂ©m 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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AutoconsciĂȘncia Cuidados paliativos EutanĂĄsia Self-awareness Palliative care Euthanasia
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Citation
Gome, C. C., JĂĄcomo, A. (2020). PorquĂȘ o cuidado paliativo. Revista Portuguesa de BioĂ©tica: Cadernos de BioĂ©tica, 25(26), pp. 45-54
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Centro de Estudos de Bioética