Topic
End-of-life ethics research, explained
4 open-access end-of-life ethics studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- What ethics does a permanent heart pump raise?
LVAD as destination therapy prolongs life in transplant-ineligible heart failure, but it also reshapes dying, consent, and caregiver burden.
- Is end-of-life autonomy only an isolated choice?
The authors treat respect for autonomy as central at the end of life but argue decisions are better understood relationally, in clinical context, not as isolated characteristics of a choice.
- Who may forgo life-sustaining treatment?
East Asian statutes on withdrawing LST differ sharply from England: Japan still lacked a forgoing-LST law after a decade of debate; Korea and Taiwan legislated withdrawal; England treats family differently in the comparative analysis.
- Should palliative care erase all suffering?
Den Hartogh says end-of-life studies cite Cassell but then measure suffering like a symptom list; dying well can require respecting some suffering, not only removing it.