Hospice care and terminality: dignity when dying

International Journal of Development Research

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18185

5 pages

Research Article

Lêda Lima da Silva, Alyne Condurú dos Santos Cunha, José Francisco Alves de Andrade, Andréa Bayma Pinheiro, Marília Nazareth Almeida Cruz de Farias, Monique de Almeida Hingel de Andrade, Fernanda Condurú dos Santos Cunha, Luana Lobato Macias, Murilo Eduardo Soares Ribeiro and José Antônio Cordero da Silva

Received 19th November, 2019; Received in revised form 21st December, 2019; Accepted 17th January, 2020; Published online 27th February, 2020

Copyright © 2020, Lêda Lima da Silva et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract:

The current bibliographic study aims to encourage the discussion about terminality and the institution of palliative care in patients with therapeutic impossibility of cure in the bioethical context. The selected articles were indexed in the period from 2005 to 2019, three online databases were used: SciELO, Lilacs and BIREME. The technological advancement in medicine was followed by an increase in patient survival, especially those with incurable diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to foster discussions about terminality and palliative care, as well as fundamental concepts in this context, such as euthanasia, dysthanasia and orthothanasia, based on minimizing the pain and suffering of terminally ill patients.

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