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KMID : 1234820160170020257
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Korean Society of Law and Medicine
2016 Volume.17 No. 2 p.257 ~ p.279
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The Supreme Decision on the Withdrawal of Life Sustaining Treatment: ‘Madam kim’ Case Reviewed by the Life Sustaining Treatment Determination Act
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Kim Jang-Han
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Abstract
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Recently, the Well-dying Act was legislated in Korea, and it will come into effect in August 4, 2017. This Act allows to withdraw the life sustaining treatment from impending death patients and also provide the hospice and palliative treatment to terminal patients. In the Supreme Court’s case so called “Madam Kim”, medical condition of Madam Kim was a persistent vegetative status owing to brain damage and her family members wanted to remove the artificial ventilation. In 2009, the Supreme Court allowed to withdraw the artificial ventilation under the specific conditions. We applied this new Well-dying Act to the Madam Kim’s case hypothetically in order to know this Act can reasonably solve the problem of life sustaining treatment for dying or terminal patients. For the impending patients, the Well-dying Act has the problem not to withdraw the futile treatment due to the advance directives of patients. Vice versa, the terminal patients have no chance to withdraw the life sustaining treatment due to the this Act impose the duty to provide the hospice and palliative treatment despite of advance directives. We need to ruke out the persistent vegetative patients from the terminal patients caused by the cancer, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, chronic obstructive lung disease and chronic liver cirrhosis, In addition, we have to discuss the effect of the advance directives of terminal patients in view of self determination right.
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KEYWORD
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Advance directives, Hospice Care, Life sustaining treatment, Terminally ill patient, Well-dying Act
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