Belgium; Child; Female; Humans; Netherlands; Palliative Care/ethics; Suicide, Assisted/ethics; United States; Palliative Care; Suicide, Assisted; Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Abstract :
[en] What is the best way to care for a child with severe neurologic impairment who seems to be dying and is in intractable pain? Can we give sedation as we remove life support? Is it ethically permissible to hasten death? In the United States, 5 states have legalized assisted suicide (although only for competent adults). In Belgium and the Netherlands, euthanasia is legal for children under some circumstances. We present a case in which parents and doctors face difficult decisions about palliative care. Experts from Belgium, the Netherlands, and the United States then discuss how they would respond to such a case.
Disciplines :
Nursing Science
Author, co-author :
Clément de Cléty, Stéphan; Cliniques universitaires St Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
FRIEDEL, Marie ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Life Sciences and Medicine (DLSM) > Medical Education ; Haute Ecole Vinci and Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
Verhagen, A A Eduard; Beatrix Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, and
Lantos, John D; Children's Mercy Hospital and University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri jlantos@cmh.edu
Carter, Brian S; Children's Mercy Hospital and University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Please Do Whatever It Takes to End Our Daughter's Suffering!
Publication date :
January 2016
Journal title :
Pediatrics
ISSN :
0031-4005
eISSN :
1098-4275
Publisher :
American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, United States
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