Questions and Answers on Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Author:Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner

Who should decide how long to maintain “support systems,” the patient, the family, the physician, or society? Must each case be individualized, or are there valid generalized criteria? What factors are considered, the family needs, the quality of life, or the expense?

As long as the patient can express his needs, I think we should maintain a support system, because it means that the patient is still a functioning human being. If the patient is nonfunctioning and not communicating, the family, the physician, and the interdisciplinary team have to get together and make a joint decision. Each case should be discussed on an individual basis. I don’t think we have valid generalized criteria, except for the definition of death, as outlined in Henry Beecher’s Harvard Report.

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