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KMID : 0352519820190020479
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Korea Univercity Medical Journal
1982 Volume.19 No. 2 p.479 ~ p.489
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A Medicolegal Review Study on Euthanasia
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Abstract
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Before the almost miraculous advances of medical technology, natural death made euthanasia a marginal issue; most people who were congenitally or accidentally reduced to "vegetative" conditions quickly died.
Recently, however, that situation has changed radically, and there has been a growing concern about the dehumanizing effects of technological development.
Technology tied to an antiquated medical and legal ethics that demands "keeping the patient alive at all costs" is too often the cause of suffering and loss of dignity in an age in which science has the means to keep the body functioning in the abscence of all recognizable signs of human life.
Therefore, euthanasia was reviewed by medical, ethical and judicial points with some dissenting opinions.
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