Operating procedures:
(1) The patient applied to the court.
All applications are in written form: after the patient expresses his wish to choose euthanasia, the relatives of the patient inform the court in the city where the hospital is located. The court promptly sent staff to the ward or special place to preside over the writing of the application. The court must designate a notary office to be present for notarization.
Before writing an application, the court must appoint a doctor to judge whether the patient is in a conscious state. People who are unconscious may not write an application. The application is in the legal standard format, and the main content that patients need to write is to express their willingness to die voluntarily. If the patient can write, he must write in person.
(2) The doctor makes a written diagnosis of the patient's condition.
The court immediately appointed authoritative doctors in the hospital where the patient was located and authoritative doctors in other hospitals to make an independent diagnosis of the patient's condition and make a written conclusion within 7 days. The written conclusion should be signed by the doctor and stamped with the official seal of the hospital.
The content of the written conclusion is mainly a clear judgment:
1. Does the patient really have a terminal illness that cannot be cured by current medical technology?
2. Does an incurable disease really bring extreme pain to patients?
3. Is the patient in a state of near death?
4. Besides euthanasia, is there really no other way to make patients get rid of pain for a long time?
(3) To reach an agreement on euthanasia.
When the conditions for euthanasia are initially reached, the court must organize activities in time to reach an euthanasia agreement.
(4) Enter the "second waiting period"
If the patient withdraws his application, he can apply again within 7 days from the date of withdrawal, and may not apply again within 7 days. The letter of withdrawal, the notarial certificate and the application for re-application shall be filed and kept by the court.
(5) Final implementation
Before the formal implementation, patients can still withdraw their application or authorization at any time (the agreement is invalid), and the withdrawal activities are carried out according to the above procedures, but doctors are not allowed to violate the agreement at will unless there are justified reasons.
Extended data:
Behavior classification
Generally divided into two categories:
1, active euthanasia refers to taking measures to urge the patient to die and end his life, such as when the patient can't stand the terminal illness.
2. Passive euthanasia. In other words, patients who are being rescued, such as dying patients, are allowed to die without giving or lifting treatment measures.
When discussing euthanasia, we should also distinguish between the following two situations:
1, euthanasia of dying patients. Here, euthanasia only advances the time of death a little.
2. Euthanasia of non-terminal patients. Without euthanasia, patients can survive for a long time, and may not feel pain, but their quality of life is low, which is a burden to social families. For example, deformed or stunted babies, terminally ill patients who are not yet in critical condition, and vegetarians.
From the perspective of ethics and law, passive euthanasia is close to natural death, while active euthanasia is close to intentional homicide.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia _ euthanasia