Hurst Samia A, Mauron Alex
Bioethics Institute, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Palliat Med. 2006 Mar;20(2):107-12. doi: 10.1191/0269216306pm1109oa.
The ethical underpinnings of palliative care and those of voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide (VE/AS) are often viewed as opposites. In this article, we review the values held in common by the euthanasia legalization movement and palliative care providers. Outlining this common ground serves to define, with greater clarity, the issues on which differences do exist, and ways in which some open questions, which are as yet unresolved, could be approached. Open discussion between VE/AS legalization advocates and palliative care providers is important to address these open questions seriously, and to enrich the care of terminally ill patients by giving members of both groups access to each other's experience.
姑息治疗的伦理基础与自愿安乐死和协助自杀（VE/AS）的伦理基础通常被视为截然相反。在本文中，我们审视了安乐死合法化运动与姑息治疗提供者所共有的价值观。勾勒出这一共同点有助于更清晰地界定确实存在差异的问题，以及探讨一些尚未解决的开放性问题的方式。VE/AS合法化倡导者与姑息治疗提供者之间展开公开讨论，对于认真处理这些开放性问题并通过让两组人员相互交流经验来丰富绝症患者的护理至关重要。
