A prática na conduta distanásica à luz da necessária preservação do direito à dignidade do paciente

Abstract

Article destined to the reflection concerning the conduct disthanasia through which is prolonged the life in a disproportionate way artificially in terminal patients. Unavoidably, the life has an end and this should be backed in the the principle human dignity, where the doctor should offer the necessary palliative cares for the preservation of the comfort and the patient's autonomy, respecting his will and of their relatives. For so much, necessary it is made an appropriate formation of the professionals of health front the terminality of the life, always acting with base in the principles bioethics of the Medicine. Besides, in the Brazilian Legal Order, the medical liability that he practices the disthanasia is still difficult to discover and the presuppositions for that characterization need to be discovered, needing a modification in the Brazilian legislation, at the same time that possible solutions can be looked in the compared right.