• 제목/요약/키워드: Dignified Death

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라몬 삼페드로: 존엄하게 죽을 권리를 찾아서 -알레한드로 아메나바르의 영화 <씨 인사이드> 를 중심으로- (Ramon Sampedro: Finding the Right to Die with Dignity - Focused on Alejandro Amenabar's Movie <Sea Inside>-)

  • 김동균
    • 문화기술의 융합
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 2024
  • 본 연구에서는 '조력존엄사'에 대한 부분을 살펴보며, 라몬이 소송을 통해서 아름답게 죽음을 맞이할 수 있는 권리는 자기에게 있다고 주장하는 모습에 대해 고찰하였다. 영화<씨 인사이드>의 주인공 라몬 삼페드로는 전신마비로 26년 이상을 침대에서 움직임도 없이 생활하고 있는 중증환자이다. 그가 할 수 있는 유일한 것은 가족들에게 말로 부탁하는 것이다. 라몬은 이러한 무가치한 삶을 더이상 지탱할 수 없기에 인간으로서 존엄하게 자신의 삶을 마치고 싶다는 열의로 '조력존엄사'를 추구하는 것이다. 라몬은 합법적인 틀안에서 조력존엄사를 허가받기 위해 소송을 제기하였지만 삶은 의무라는 이유로 기각당한다. 라몬은 결국 자신이 추구하고자 하는 조력존엄사를 자신의 친구들의 도움으로 행한다. 라몬은 자신의 죽음에 대한 과정을 기록으로 남기기 위해서 촬영을 위한 카메라를 설치하고, 조력존엄사에 사용하는 치사약인 청산가리를 소개하면서 담담하게 카메라 앞에서 청산가리를 흡입하면서 조용히 죽음을 맞이한다. 결국 라몬은 자신이 원했던 조력존엄사를 실행한 것이며 현재의 삶에서 해방된 것이다. 라몬이 비록 식물인간이나 임종을 앞둔 환자는 아니지만 자신의 결정으로 실행한 조력존엄사를 어느 누가 비난할 수 있겠는가. 우리는 라몬과 같은 중증환자들이 조력존엄사를 할 수 있도록 사회적인 공감을 얻어서 법제화할 수 있도록 노력해야 할 것이다.

호스피스의료와 간호윤리 (Hospice Medicine and Nursing Ethics)

  • 문성제
    • 의료법학
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    • 제9권1호
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    • pp.385-411
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    • 2008
  • The goal of medicine is to contribute to promoting national health by preventing diseases and providing treatment. The scope of modern medicine isn't merely confined to disease testing, treatment and prevention in accordance to that, and making experiments by using the human body is widespread. The advance in modern medicine has made a great contribution to valuing human dignity and actualizing a manly life, but there is a problem that has still nagged modern medicine: treatment and healing for terminal patients including cancer patients. In advanced countries, pain care and hospice medicine are already universal. Offering a helping hand for terminal patients to lead a less painful and more manly life from diverse angles instead of merely focusing on treatment is called the very hospice medicine. That is a comprehensive package of medical services to take care of death-facing terminal patients and their families with affection. That is providing physical, mental and social support for the patients to pass away in peace after living a dignified and decent life, and that is comforting their bereaved families. The National Hospice Organization of the United States provides terminal patients and their families with sustained hospital care and home care in a move to lend assistance to them. In our country, however, tertiary medical institutions simply provide medical care for terminal patients to extend their lives, and there are few institutional efforts to help them. Hospice medicine is offered mostly in our country by non- professionals including doctors, nurses, social workers, pastors or physical therapists. Terminal patients' needs cannot be satisfied in the same manner as those of other patients, and it's needed to take a different approach to their treatment as well. Nevertheless, the focus of medical care is still placed on treatment only, which should be taken seriously. Ministry for Health, Welfare & Family Affairs and Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service held a public hearing on May 21, 2008, on the cost of hospice care, quality control and demonstration project to gather extensive opinions from the academic community, experts and consumer groups to draw up plans about manpower supply, facilities and demonstration project, but the institutions are not going to work on hospice education, securement of facilities and relevant legislation. In 2002, Ministry for Health, Welfare & Family Affairs made an official announcement to introduce a hospice nurse system to nurture nurse specialists in this area. That ministry legislated for the qualifications of advanced nurse practitioner and a hospice nurse system(Article 24 and 2 in Enforcement Regulations for the Medical Law), but few specific plans are under way to carry out the regulations. It's well known that the medical law defines a nurse as a professional health care worker, and there is a move to draw a line between the responsibilities of doctors and those of nurses in association with medical errors. Specifically, the roles of professional hospice are increasingly expected to be accentuated in conjunction with treatment for terminal patients, and it seems that delving into possible problems with the job performance of nurses and coming up with workable countermeasures are what scholars of conscience should do in an effort to contribute to the development of medicine and the realization of a dignified and manly life.

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Postmodern Animality and Spectrality: Ted Hughes's Wodwo and Crow

  • Park, Jung Pil
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제58권6호
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    • pp.1143-1165
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    • 2012
  • Tinted with ontological concern, Ted Hughes passes through an existential climate, eventually confirms death( or nothingness) as the new foundation of his poetry, and explores the various paradoxical effects of nothingness. Nihilism, fraught with rather negative and traumatic themes such as death, melancholy, and despair can, however, generate being (even in multiple modes), animalistic vitality, and insubstantial specters. Among these new functions of nothingness animality and spectrality are the most notable in Hughes's poetry. A considerable number of animals and bioorganisms that Hughes introduces exhibit the enormous energy derived from the dignity of death, from subversive challenges against the established hierarchy, and from new and dynamic multifaceted sources of nothingness. In other words, Hughes's animals, yield surplus power beyond themselves, as if they are demi-gods; in short, they feature the sublime as unidentified terrifying effects of nothingness. In a sense, animality means allowing some level of violence without legal sanction. Hughes inaugurates this kind of all bigotry-eradicating violence and attempts to subvert higher beings such as humans and gods, and existing doctrines: thrushes rise up against the animal and human worlds; a rush of ghostly crabs at night press through the human world. Hughes also resists the highest being, God, employing the technique of rewriting God's theology. Dirty, anomalous crows attack, subvert, and dismember the delicate, indurate, and thorough system of logos. Hughes, of course, does not place the animals merely in lofty regard, aware of the ulterior deprivation of the sublime animality, the trace of existential negativity. Thus, a seemingly omnipotent crow can become a mere beggar guzzling ice cream from the garbage bin on the beach. In addition, the violent and dignified aspects of nothingness can be transformed to reveal the thin and trivial traits as unreliable specters. Dark, heavy, and terrible nullity lessens its own volume and mass, and exposes the airy waves of shadows or specters. However, owing to nullity's untraceable track, the scarcity and unfamiliarity of the phantoms inversely display their foreign gigantic effects such as fantasy and violence.

조력사망(Aid in Dying)에 대한 고찰 (A Study on Aid in Dying)

  • 이지은
    • 의료법학
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    • 제23권2호
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    • pp.67-96
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    • 2022
  • 인간의 존엄성과 환자의 자율성에 터잡아 연명의료의 중단이 제도화된 이래, 최근에는 스스로 존엄하게 죽음에 이르기 위해 환자가 자기 생명을 단축시키고자 의료적 도움을 받을 권리가 있는지, 그러한 행위가 어느 범위에서 정당화될 수 있는지의 문제가 활발하게 논의되고 있다. 우리나라에서는 2016년 연명의료결정법의 제정으로 연명의료중단이 제도화된 이래 여러 차례 개정을 거쳤는데, 최근에는 '조력존엄사'를 합법화하기 위한 내용의 연명의료결정법 개정안이 발의되었다. 이번 개정안에서는 조력존엄사를 '환자의 의사로 담당의사의 조력을 통해 스스로 삶을 종결하는 것'으로 정의하고 있는데, 이는 네덜란드, 벨기에 등의 유럽 국가와 미국 일부 주에서 시행되고 있는 조력사망(Aid in Dying)에 해당하는 내용으로 보인다. 조력사망이란 의사결정능력이 있는 환자가 치료가 불가능한 질병으로 고통을 받고 있을 때 환자가 사망을 앞당길 수 있는 약물을 의사로부터 처방받아 이를 이용하여 사망에 이르는 것을 의미한다. 존엄사에 대한 논의는 연명의료중단에서 조력사망의 순서로 진행되는 것이 세계적 추세인데, 2000년대에 이르러 일부 국가에서는 조력사망, 나아가 적극적 안락사까지 합법화하였다. 미국에서는 오리건 주를 필두로 여러 주에서 조력사망을 인정하는 법률을 두고 있지만 적극적 안락사에 대해서는 금지하고 있다. 이 논문에서는 일찌기 존엄한 죽음에 관한 논의를 시작하여 환자의 자기결정권을 제도화한 미국의 일부 주에서 조력사망의 입법화가 어떤 과정을 거쳐 이루어졌는지를 살펴보고 캘리포니아의 임종선택법의 주요 내용과 법시행 이후의 결과를 분석하였다.

여가활동 프로그램 이용 노인의 삶의 체험 (The Life Experiences of the Elderly in Leisure Activities)

  • 이경우
    • 재활간호학회지
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    • 제12권2호
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    • pp.102-111
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    • 2009
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the meaning of the life experiences of the elderly in their leisure activities. It was done to provide fundamental data for nursing programs dealing with the elders. Method: The research took a phenomenological approach to the study. Eight participants, who were having leisure activities in the community, were observed thoroughly from September to November in 2008. The data were collected through in-depth interviews and observations. By using Giorgi's phenomenological method, the data were analyzed in a qualitative way. Results: There were ten main themes that the health professionals should consider when dealing with the elderly: Changes in physical health conditions, Decreased role and less social interaction, Loneliness, Longing for and recalling of the past, Acknowledgement and acceptance of aging and death, Affection towards one's life, Yearning for a dignified life, Active health management, Enthusiastic participation in leisure activities, and Positive outlook and mindset. Conclusion: This study explored how the elderly people adjusted to the physical, psychological and social changes that they experienced. On the basis of the results, further research for the elders in other settings is needed to develop comprehensive programs that will improve their quality of life.

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성인의 심폐소생술 금지(DNR)에 대한 인식 및 태도에 대한 조사 연구 (A Study on the Perception and Attitude of 'Do Not Resuscitate' in Adults)

  • 이수정
    • 한국융합학회논문지
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    • 제10권6호
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    • pp.393-399
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    • 2019
  • 본 논문은 성인의 심페소생술 금지(DNR)에 대한 인식 및 태도에 대한 서술적 조사 연구이다. 구조화된 설문지를 이용하였으며, 연구 대상은 210명이었다. DNR에 대한 인식에서는 '편안한 죽음을 위해(64.3%)' DNR이 도움이 된다고 긍정적으로 응답하였으며, 상황에 따른 DNR의 필요성은 '품위 있는 죽음을 위함(41.3%)' '환자의 고통을 줄여주기 위해(23.9%)' 등이었으며, DNR에 동의하지 않는 응답자의 이유는 '법적 문제가 제기 될 수 있기 때문(61.7%)', '인간의 존엄성은 생명유지가 최우선이기 때문(16.7%)' 등의 순이었다. DNR에 대한 태도는 '내가 불치병을 가졌을 때 사실을 알기 원하는지의 여부'가 평균 4.21점으로 가장 높았으며, 성인의 연령대별 DNR에 대한 태도에는 차이가 없었다. 심폐소생술 금지는 연명치료 중단의 방법이 아니라 인간이 임종과정과 죽음에 대한 자율권을 행사하는 포괄적 맥락에서 다루어져야 할 것이다.

호스피스 병동 말기 암 환자 가족의 돌봄 경험에 관한 현상학적 연구 (A Phenomenological Study of Experience about Family Caregivers' Caring for Their Terminal Cancer Patient)

  • 양은숙;이동훈
    • 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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    • 제17권10호
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    • pp.667-685
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    • 2017
  • 본 연구는 호스피스병동에서 말기 암 환자를 돌보는 가족들의 돌봄 경험의 의미와 본질을 탐색하는 것을 목적으로 하고 있다. 이를 위해 인간의 의식 속에 드러나는 현상과 경험의 본질을 파악하기에 적합한 Giorgi의 현상학적 연구방법으로 접근하여 9명의 말기 암 환자 배우자와 직계가족 보호자를 대상으로 심층면담을 실시하였다. 자료 분석 결과 122개의 중심의미와 45개의 주제가 도출되었고"삶의 집착", "침상 지킴이", "돌봄 희생", "돌봄 장정(長征)의 피로", "애증의 골", "병자에게 복수하기", "소진 후의 허탄함", "간병 돌봄 동역자의 위로", "체념 속에서의 최선", "고통으로부터의 자유", "암의 역설적 축복", "성찰적 전회", "존엄한 죽음의 준비"의 13개 본질적 주제가 드러났다. 이와 같은 연구 결과에 근거하여 호스피스 병동에 말기 암 환자 보호자와 직계가족의 공통적 경험의 의미를 논의했으며, 보호자의 심리 정서적 부담을 완화하고 삶의 재구성에 기여할 수 있는 심리상담 차원에서의 제언을 하였다.

지역사회 중년 및 고령여성의 건강문제와 대처경험: 포커스 그룹 인터뷰를 중심으로 (A Study on Experiences of Health Problems and Coping in Middle-aged and Elderly Women in the Community: Focusing on Focus Group Interview Approach)

  • 정여원;강경림;이병주
    • 지역사회간호학회지
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    • 제31권2호
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    • pp.119-129
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: The aim of this qualitative study is to explore the health problems and coping experiences of middle-aged and elderly women in the community. Methods: A total of five focus group interviews were conducted with three groups of middle-aged and two groups of elderly women. All interviews were recorded and transcribed. Data were analyzed using the content analysis method. Results: Health problems were categorized as confusion caused by problems that are difficult to handle alone in the middle-aged group and suffering originated by confronting changes in roles and environment in the elderly group. The health problems included stress, suffering, anxiety and social withdrawal as subcategories for the middle-aged women, and the stress, sense of loss, fear, and limited social activities caused by their life events for the elderly women. Meanwhile, the contents of categories about coping were revealed as the beginning of care for the body and mind for healthy life in the middle-aged group and active practice with insight into a healthy lifestyle in the elderly group. While the middle-aged women focused on themselves, attempted changes and started to take care of themselves, the elderly women interacted with the outside world, hardened their mind, made efforts for a dignified death, and managed health by their own methods. Conclusion: There were differences in the experiences of middle-aged and elderly women in accepting their health problems and coping. Nursing interventions reflecting these findings can help to manage and promote the health of middle-aged and elderly women based on an integrated perspective.

DNR(Do-Not-Resuscitate)에 대한 의사와 간호사의 경험 및 인지도 (Doctor's and Nurses' Perception and Experiences of DNR)

  • 한성숙
    • 간호행정학회지
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    • 제11권3호
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    • pp.255-264
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    • 2005
  • This study is a descriptive research in investigating the perception of doctors and nurses with regard to DNR, and data were collected through survey questionnaires. The period of collecting data was between July 15 and October 30, 2004, distributing 128 questionnaires to 128 participants, and a total of 110 questionnaires from 55 doctors and 55 nurses were collected (86%)among 70 different hospitals. The collected data were analyzed using SAS program to get real number and percentage, and were also analyzed with $X^2$-test. The Study Results are as follows: 1. Respondents who agreed with the necessity of DNR was 97.27%, the reasons of DNR necessity were 59.20% of 'impossibility of recovery in spite of lots of efforts,' and 35.20% of 'for the purpose of choosing a comfortable and dignified death,' and 97.2% of respondents answered that it was necessary to give explanation of DNR to serious case patients, terminal patients and their family. 2. Problems derived from DNR decisions were 44.44% of 'lack of treatment and nursing,' 21.11% of 'guilty conscience about failing to do best efforts,' and 71.57% of CPR implementation right after DNR decision. 3. Reasons of implementing CRP for patients with DNR decision were 50.94% of 'for the presence of family and relatives at the point of patient's death,' 20.76% of 'guardian's change of DNR decision,' and 16.98% of 'no communication for the consent after DNR decision.' 4. With regard to who was to make DNR decision? there was a difference in the opinion between doctors' and nurses' group while the group of doctors chose 'by the consent of the family and the doctor in charge,' and the group of nurses chose 'patient's intension,' and with regard to Have you received DNR related education? and Will people who want DNR increase if there is explanation given? there was a difference between the two groups. 5. In the catholic institutions, respondents of 71.7% said that it was necessary to take DNR depending upon the situation, and 73% said that they had performed DNR before. 6. In the institutions with over 500 beds, 91.92% of respondents said that there should be an establishment of guideline book as a written format to implement DNR. From the results of this study, it was found that DNR was implemented and executed broadly in clinical fields in the absence of necessary instructions and/or guideline, and that DNR order was placed to the group of doctors who got less opportunity for proper education than did that of nurses.

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심폐소생술금지 교육 및 임상 경험에 따른 윤리적 태도 (Ethical Attitudes according to Education and Clinical Experience of Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR))

  • 계영애;이미연;박진숙;김효주;정태연;장보영;김윤정;구동회
    • Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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    • 제18권3호
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    • pp.208-218
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    • 2015
  • 목적: 본 연구는 심폐소생술 비시행(DNR)에 관해 간호사와 의사의 DNR에 대한 인식 및 태도가 DNR 관련 교육 및 임상경험 여부에 따른 차이가 있는지 분석하고자 하였다. 방법: 연구대상은 단일대학병원에서 근무하는 간호사와 의사로서 총 310명이었으며, 자료수집 기간은 2013년 8월 19일부터 8월 30일까지였다. 연구도구는 DNR에 관해 간호사와 의사의 임상 경험과 윤리문제에 관한 인식 및 태도를 조사하기 위해 연구자들의 문헌고찰을 통해 30문항으로 구성된 설문지를 사용하였다. 결과: 본 연구의 참여자 중에 간호사는 238명(77%), 의사는 72명(23%)이었다. 대부분의 참가자들(99%)이 DNR의 필요성에 동의하였고 이유로는 환자의 편안하고 품위 있는 죽음(52%), 회복이 불가능한 의학적 상태(23%), 환자 본인의 죽음에 대한 선택(19%)의 순이었다. DNR 임상경험에 따른 차이는 DNR 필요성의 동의, DNR 시기 및 DNR 이후의 다른 치료의 허용에 대해서 차이를 보였다. 그러나 DNR 교육 여부에 따른 차이는 DNR 시기 이외에는 유의한 차이를 보이지 못하였다. 결론: 본 연구를 통해 DNR에 대한 교육보다는 임상에서의 경험이 실제 DNR에 대한 인식 및 태도에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것을 보여주었기에 효과적인 DNR 교육을 위하여는 실제 임상 실습을 통한 교육이 필요할 것으로 생각된다.