生命终末期关怀的伦理困境与实践探索
Ethical Dilemmas and Practical Exploration of End-of-Life Care

随着全球性老龄化问题日益突出，生命终末期关怀越来越受到广泛关注。毋庸置疑，生命需要尊严，当一个生命在走向结束的时候，尊严显得尤为重要。而在这一过程中，通过给临终老人以关怀和帮助支持，提高其在人生最后一个阶段的生命质量，是对其尊严的最好维护。生命终末期关怀是人类社会最具人性化的表现，其发展是在提高人类生活品质后，提升死亡品质的一种追求体现，也是人类文明的巨大进步。本文在梳理有关生命终末期关怀研究成果的基础上，进一步思考探讨我国生命终末期关怀的发展方向。
With the global aging problem becoming more and more prominent, end-life care has attracted more and more attention. There is no doubt that life needs dignity, and dignity is especially important when a life is coming to an end. In this process, improving the quality of life in the last stage of life by giving care and help to the dying elderly, is the best maintenance of their dignity. End-of-life care is the most humanized expression of human society, and its development is a pursuit of improving the quality of death after improving the quality of human life, and it is also a great progress of human civilization. Based on the research results of end-life care, this paper further explores the development direction of end-life care in China.