연명의료결정법 제정과정과 문제점 검토
= Issues and Improvements on the Act on Decision on Life-sustaining Treatment for Patient’s in Hospice and Palliative Care or at the End of Life
- 저자[authors] 이한주(LEE, HAN JOO)
- 학술지명[periodical name] 인권법평론
- 권호사항[Volume/Issue] Vol.22No.1[2019]
- 발행처[publisher] 전남대학교 공익인권법센터
- 자료유형[Document Type] 학술저널
- 수록면[Pagination] 157-191
- 언어[language] Korean
- 발행년[Publication Year] 2019
- KDC[Korean Decimal Classification] 360
- 주제어[descriptor] the Act on Decision on Life-sustaining Treatment for Patient’s in Hospice and Palliative Care or at the End of Life,Life-Sustaining Treatment Determination,Patient’s Right to Self-Determination,Withdrawing Life-Sustaining,Advance Directives
다국어 초록[Multilingual Abstract]
The last court judgments on the case at Boramae Medical Center in 1997 and Severance Hospital (the case of Grandma Kim) in 2008 have drawn the attention of the public in the meantime. Based on this, ‘the Act on Decision on Life-sustaining Treatment for Patient’s in Hospice and Palliative Care or at the End of Life’(so called ‘Act on Life-Sustaining Treatment Determination’), enacted through such a legislative process in, should protect the dignity and value as a human being by guaranteeing the best interests for the patients and respecting their own decisions, as stated in its purpose. It means that the patient in the dying process could decide the medical care for life prolongation, while maintaining his or her own dignity and value, and this decision must be made by the individual s self-determination. Thus, the patient s right to self-determination will always have to be judged carefully and objectively, in which it would be fair to surely judge whether or not it might be based on the patient s intent. In this way, the advance directives is evaluated as the intention of the patient in the dying process to acknowledge the right to self-determination, or the right to his or her own life, through the decision on the medical care for life prolongation. Accordingly, by discussing again the issues which have already been brought up concerning the 「Act on Life-Sustaining Treatment Determination」, it would be necessary to rapidly incorporate the results into the revision work in the orientation where the purposes at that time might be faithfully implemented. In addition, the 「Act on Life-Sustaining Treatment Determination」 itself, is surely important, but how to operate the law is also very significant. It must be judged carefully through the specific and objective criteria as much as possible, and such rational standards may be remained as a task to be prepared and supplemented in the subsequent lower statutes.
목차[Table of content]
Ⅰ. 서론 Ⅱ. 연명의료결정의 법적 의의 Ⅲ. 연명의료결정법 제정 과정 Ⅳ. 연명의료결정법의 주요 내용과 문제점 Ⅴ. 결론