Vol 3, No 1 (2018)
REVIEW ARTICLE
Published online: 2018-06-12
THE LIMITS OF PERSISTENT THERAPY
Disaster Emerg Med J 2018;3(1):22-25.
Abstract
The growing average life expectancy of human beings is one of the greatest achievements of medicine. From the dawn of mankind, death has been associated with pain, suffering, loss and a series of many other negative emotions. Although it is an inseparable part of human existence, it is difficult to define it unequivocally, and the clarification of this phenomenon has been worked on, from antiquity, by medics, philosophers, clergy and psychologists, seeking to know man in the physiological, psychological, religious, social spheres [1]. The fact is that human life is the highest value, which is why there is a lot of controversy about making the decision to stop persistent therapy. The article is a review of the present problem, namely the cessation of persistent therapy, in an era of the development of medicine.
Keywords: persistent therapyintensive therapydeath
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