Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kok Yew, Gary Chan

Titel

End of life

Ist Teil von

• Health Law and Medical Ethics in Singapore, 2021, p.209-232

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Singapore is experiencing an ageing population with increased average life expectancy. The provision of long-term and palliative care in Singapore is mainly drawn from the voluntary welfare organisations and charity sector on an ad-hoc basis and supported by grants from the Ministry for Social and Family Development. Death in a sense defies definition. From the philosophical perspective, it is a state of non-existence which falls outside our human-describable experience. The Singapore Academy of Medicine published guidelines for the determination of brain death "in the deeply comatosed patient" in 1985. Doctors, family members and the loved ones of patients who are suffering from terminal illnesses may have to confront thorny issues. Difficult decisions arise when the patient is in a coma and tied to a life support system. Moving on to the case of conjoined twins, it is noted from the outset that the majority of conjoined twins are stillborn.