论死亡的尊严与权利——以癌症病人自杀现象为例  

On the Dignity and Rights of the Death:Take Cancer Patients' Suicide as an Example

作　　者：刘长梅 尚咏梅 焦春红 孙洪岩[4] 

机构地区：[1]山东电力中心医院急诊科,山东济南250001 [2]山东电力中心医院护理部,山东济南250001 [3]济南第六人民医院神经外科,山东济南250200 [4]山东大学齐鲁医院内分泌科,山东济南250012

出　　处：《医学与哲学（A）》2014年第3期20-22,共3页Medicine & Philosophy:Humanistic & Social Medicine Edition

摘　　要：现代医学对晚期癌症病人死亡过程的过分干预使得死亡的尊严与权利问题日益受到人们的重视。而对病人自杀现象的理解则更应该借助于尊严死亡的理念。通过文献研究认为,难以忍受的躯体和心理上的痛苦是造成癌症病人自杀的首要原因。因此,癌症病人的自杀行为可以在相当程度上解释为一种摆脱艰难生存境遇的尝试。医生和家属都应充分考量癌症病人生命最后阶段的生活质量,给予他们真挚的关爱,在必要的时候,应允许癌症病人选择一种坦然的、平静的、有尊严的死亡方式,赋予他们选择死亡的权利。Excessive intervention of modern medicine on the death process of terminal cancer patients makes people draw close attention to the issues of dignity and rights. Meanwhile, the understanding of the phenomenon of patients＇ suicide should depend more on the concept of death with dignity. This article proves that unbearable physical and psychological suffering is the prime cause of the suicide through the literature research. Therefore, the behavior of cancer patients＇ suicide can be largely explained as an attempt to escape from the difficult survival situation. As a consequence, doctors and family members should fully consider the quality of life of the cancer patients in their final stage, provide them with a sincere love, allow them to choose a calm, quiet, dignified death mode, and endow them with the right to choose death when necessary.

关 键 词：死亡 尊严 自杀 

分 类 号：R-052[医药卫生]