Due to the complexity of euthanasia, which involves many aspects such as morality, ethics, law and medicine, China has not yet legislated it. ?
Yan and Hu Yamei first proposed euthanasia at the Seventh National People's Congress from 65438 to 0988. They are top experts in obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics in China.
Yan wrote such a sentence in the motion: "Birth, aging, illness and death are natural laws, but instead of making some terminally ill patients miserable, it is better to let them end their lives legally and peacefully."
1994 during the national people's congress, 32 NPC deputies from Guangdong jointly put forward a motion of "requesting the enactment of euthanasia legislation in line with the national conditions of China as soon as possible".
At the Third Session of the Eighth National People's Congress (1995), 170 NPC deputies submitted four proposals on euthanasia legislation.
1996, the representative of Shanghai Municipal People's Congress once again put forward a related motion, calling on the state to try euthanasia legislation in Shanghai first. At the first national symposium on euthanasia held in 1997, most delegates supported euthanasia, while some delegates thought it was urgent to legislate on it.
On March 9th, 2003, Wang Zhongcheng, a representative of the National People's Congress, an academician of China Academy of Engineering and a famous neurosurgeon, was entrusted by Professor Hu Yamei, an academician of China Academy of Engineering and president of Beijing Children's Hospital, and submitted a proposal to the General Assembly, demanding that euthanasia should be tried first in Beijing and relevant laws and regulations should be established. ?
On July 22, 2003, the media reported that the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress Education, Culture and Health Committee pointed out that euthanasia legislation was unconstitutional when it held a meeting of CPPCC members.
The person in charge said: "Whether euthanasia is voluntary or not, it is actually a deprivation of the right to life and is directly protected by the Constitution."
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The word euthanasia comes from Greek, which translates as "optimized death" or "painless death". That is, a comfortable and painless death for people with incurable diseases and extremely painful diseases.
Nowadays, western social liberalism prevails, and the view of supporting euthanasia prevails. While learning from the beneficial experience of other countries, we should also note that euthanasia in China is not only a question of individual's free choice, but also a moral and ethical issue in contemporary society.
Since ancient times, China people's traditional attitude towards life and death has been "being born without knowing how to die", emphasizing doing well in the present and adopting an evasive attitude towards death.
This is because in China's traditional thought, the individual is not an absolutely independent individual, but the carrier of various social relations such as blood, clan and neighborhood.
People's death is not simply the elimination of individual existence, but more the loss and remodeling of social relations related to the past, which in turn changes the replacement of rights and obligations. "When the father dies, the son follows, and the younger brother ends up with the younger brother."
Its changes can be seen. Traditional rural society attaches importance to stability, and death often brings about great changes in social relations, so people are very cautious about death.
This is different from the western values of "from birth to death" and paying more attention to individual freedom of choice. They were born in different social environments. There is no competition between the two, just a difference.
As the saying goes, "Zhu Dexiao comes first." "Filial piety" has been deeply rooted in the thoughts of everyone in China since ancient times. There is a saying in Erya that parents are filial. What is kindness? Shuowen said: "From the old province, from the child, from the old."
The word "filial piety" means that children have to take care of their elderly parents, that is, when their parents are old, their functions gradually decline and their self-help ability declines. At this time, children should fulfill their obligations of support and help, take good care of their parents and let them enjoy their old age.
In reality, parents often ask for euthanasia. Children often don't want to see their parents die, but they don't want to disobey them.
If euthanasia is carried out according to the wishes of the elders, can it be regarded as a "good parent"? If you don't obey your parents' wishes, you can only watch your parents toss and turn painfully in the hospital bed, which also violates the saying in the Analects of Confucius that "respect without violating, work without complaining" This traditional moral contradiction also makes euthanasia more controversial in China.
Euthanasia also involves the professional ethics conflict of doctors. Since ancient times, there has been a saying in China that doctors should treat their patients like their own children. This concept contains two principles,
First, the principle of no harm, everything is based on saving lives.
Second, the principle of arbitrariness means making decisions for patients regardless of their autonomy. The Hippocratic oath in the west also mentioned that "I will not give harmful drugs to others, and I will not give them guidance, even if someone asks."
Expressed a view similar to China's ancient "harmless". The nobleness of a doctor's profession lies in saving lives and saving lives. This sense of responsibility, which is hard to give up, and the thinking mode of putting patients' lives first and not hurting patients have become the concern of many doctors in addition to the current laws and regulations when facing patients' requests for euthanasia.
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