Pros And Cons Of Dysthanasia

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Dysthanasia is one of the practices in medical term which has an issue if it is acceptable to the patient or to the patient’s relative or not. It is known by others as referring to slow and painful death or common fault in medicine. Which according to the Bioethics Dictionary it is used to indicate the extension of the dying process through treatment that only prolong one’slife by means of life support which is painful not only to the patient but also to the relatives. So if we decide which is good, is it we continue the processes of dysthanasia or not. In this essay we will see dysthanasia as unwise decision.

According to the authors de Menezes, Lucilda, and de Souza Alves (2009) and to the nurses they interviewed, “It extends suffering and not life, does not bring any therapeutic benefit and causes high cost institutions.”

They described dysthanasia as a burden in our life in which the terminally ill patient will not recover, it does not bring any help to the patient, wherein we spend too much money wherein the patients and the relative do not benefit and from the technology they uses for the treatment fees and to the hospital bills like the room they are using in the hospital and the medicine that the doctors required which will cause high costs and in the end, the patient will still die and it causes pain, agony and suffering to the relatives as well as the patient.

According to Dr.Calva (2015) “Proportionality is the evaluation of the relative