It is to Be Continued in the Life or the Lengthened in the Death by the Science and Technology

Philosophy and Culture 33 (4):105-118 (2006)
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Why is the dividing line between life and death? Life is breathing and heart rate of working? As medical technology advances, people in temporary near death, by living the future life-sustaining machine, there is no dignity at all; the use of CPR or first aid, but also antidote, and suffer in vain. In recent years people began to awareness to how the dignity of the dead, it is the hospice medical appeared to ease. In addition, when people are dying when there is emergency, often the decision Lok family and medical staff in the body, while the autonomy of patients to the emergency is not signed to make, no doubt, under the traditional medical, found himself the dignity of a road. So you killed me, length is no longer just a continuation or the extension of death only. What is the dividing line of the life and the death? Is the life only the breath and the palpitation operation? As a result of medical science and technology progress, the people when borders on the death, the affiliation by life sustaining to maintain the life . That is not dignity. People start to realize dignity dying, that medical service so-called Hospice care. When is the end of human life whether to resuscitate or not? The decision-making power also often falls on the family member and on the medical care person. The patients to sign the "Do-Not-Resuscitate" , that is a road of the dignity for themselves in the traditional medical service. The death no longer only is the length lengthens or the death continues

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