The so-called ‘Assistance and Dignity Justice Act’ was proposed in the National Assembly, which allows doctors to provide drugs to terminally ill patients who are suffering from extreme pain so that they can end their lives on their own.
Rep. Ahn Gyu-baek of the Democratic Party of Korea announced on the 16th that he had proposed a partial amendment to the Act on the decision of hospice palliative care and life-sustaining care for patients in the process of dying on the 16th.
Assisted dignified death is a terminally ill patient who, if he or she wishes, ends his or her life with the help of the attending physician, also called ‘doctor-assisted suicide’.
All euthanasia is illegal under domestic law, but assisted dignity differs from euthanasia in the traditional sense, in which a doctor administers a drug directly to a patient in that the patient administers the drug himself.
The amendment will create a new assisted dignitary review committee under the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and require that those who wish to assisted dignitary apply to the committee for review.
Subjects must prove the three requirements that they must be terminally ill, that unacceptable pain is occurring, and that they wish to die with assisted dignity according to their wishes.
The criminal aiding and aiding charges of suicide are excluded for doctors in charge of assisting the death of assisted dignity.
Assemblyman Ahn said, “Death comes to everyone because the living are mortal.” He added, “There is a need for a serious social discussion on death with dignity and dignity, the so-called ‘well-dying’, rather than a taboo discussion of death. He explained the background of his feet.
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