Ethical and Unethical Dilemmas Hospice Workers Encounter when Patients Wish to Hasten Death

Because of living or sickness within 6 months, the patient notices that they are confronted with the decision to spend these remaining days. That is a medical problem. For some people it leaves an eternal memory with their loved ones and for others it is trying to speed up their death. The dilemma faced by hospice care workers is not a palliative care but a moral and immoral matter of the patient you care about choosing an alternative.

The moral dilemma is unique to every health care environment. Samples of hospice care workers do not go directly to the hospice care ethics committee (N = 110) and investigate ethical issues in hospice care, how to manage the problem, and how social workers have solved the ethical dilemma did. The common problems being discussed are the patient's condition, family involvement, and family denials for terminal disease. The challenge is most often discussed at interdisciplinary team meetings. Social workers participate in traditional social work activities such as providing community resource knowledge, psychosocial history of patients, and promoting self-determination in policies. (This is one of seven articles in the special issue of hospice care.) (Summary of journals)

Should a doctor be permitted to end a patient's life when the pain is unpredictable and the condition of the patient is over? Should a doctor play an active role in hastening the death of patients? Based on this there is an ethical dilemma, which means that there are many contradictory arguments about the legalization of doctors that encourage suicide. Therefore, the decision on whether to legalize should be made based on the critical evaluation of these discussions. The argument that doctors encourage suicide to legitimize can not be ignored and can not easily be accepted.