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KMID : 1025620220250040341
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Korean Journal of Medical Ethics
2022 Volume.25 No. 4 p.341 ~ p.346
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The Right to Die with Dignity and Physician-assisted Suicide
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Lee Seok-Bae
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Abstract
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In a recent proposed amendment to Korea’s legislation governing decisions on life-sustaining treatment, physician-assisted suicide is characterized as a form of “death with dignity.” However, there is no legal right to suicide in South Korea and the idea that physician-assisted suicide is a permissible and dignified way of dying is based on a misunderstanding of the constitutional right of self-determination, which entails only a right to refuse unwanted medical care. This article ex-plains these misunderstandings concerning the concept of death with dignity and a patient’s right to self-determination and critically reviews the proposed legislation concerning physician-assisted suicide.
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KEYWORD
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physician-assisted suicide, patient’s right to self-determination, death with dignity, euthanasia, the right to die, Act On Hospice And Palliative Care And Decisions On Life-sustaining Treatment For Patients At The End Of Life
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