According to the animal protection act can a veterinarian be liable to be tried and punished if he or she does not help a terminally sick animal from the very last passage of suffering with a lethal dose of a drug.
According to the law, however, a doctor who gives a terminally ill, dying man, the corresponding treatment, punished for murder or manslaughter and lose his medical license. Is this possible in 2019? Yes, unfortunately.
between 90 000 and 95 000 people each year. Palliative care is able to give many dying a good care and a gentle death.
However, according to the annual palliative care register had a large proportion of these patients have no or inadequate relief during the last week of life in pain (22.9%), clinical problem (52,7%), dyspnea (63.2%), nausea (45.5 percent) or anxiety (31.3% respectively). The most alarming of these figures is that no relief at all present in 102 cases of pain, 438 cases of shortness of breath, 294 cases of nausea and 189 cases of anxiety.
as more and more countries have legislation that in the end of life guarantees for the terminally ill autonomy, and privacy by allowing voluntary euthanasia.
has 55 million citizens (approximately 17 percent of the U.S. population) access to legislation that allows a doctor under very strict conditions, to prescribe a medication that the terminally ill patient himself takes. You have over 20 years of experience since the first state, Oregon, introduced the law.
Of great importance is the experience that around 30% of the dying, which received a prescription is not needed to take their tablets, but to the physical availability of these drugs resulted in a bespoke security for the patient. Over 90% of the dying in Oregon who have received this voluntary euthanasia has been staying at the hospice, even if a majority dies peacefully in the home in the presence of near and dear ones.
his professional career with a long experience of providing euthanasia for terminally ill animals. How does this experience Swedish veterinary attitude regarding euthanasia to the dying people?
A survey among Swedish veterinarians shows that the proportion who are in favour of voluntary euthanasia for dying people (75 per cent) is virtually identical with the proportion of the Swedish public who are in favour of this (73 per cent).
A large majority of veterinarians agree, therefore, with the Swedish people that euthanasia should be offered to people for the mitigation of suffering in the end of life. It should be most important in those situations where palliative care is not to the full can provide the most sufferers the relief they are in need of.
that man is worth more than animals, why should not the suffering of the people in the end of life be offered similar treatment as animals in the same situation?
