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A Study On Nurses' Views On Assisted Suicide
Nermin ERSOY*, İnsaf ALTUN**
* Doç.Dr., Kocaeli Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Tıp Tarihi ve Deontoloji (Tıp Etiği) AD,** Yrd.Doç.Dr., Kocaeli Üniversitesi Kocaeli Sağlık Yüksek Okulu Hemşirelik Bölümü Hemşirelik Esasları AD, İZMİT
Objective: This research has been planned for to determine the way nurses evaluate thoughts on the assisted suicide.
Method: The form was delivered to nurses working at the bedside in Kocaeli. The results of the study were evaluated their thoughts on assisted suicde with their professional values.
Results: For patients who are experiencing extreme pain, suffering from an incurable disease or in an irreversible state and in need of care because of low life quality; 36.3% of nurses found the idea of "supplying means or ways to commit suicide, in order to facilitate death" morally acceptable. For these nurses, the value of self devotion was found to play a major role in their order of professional values. Most of the nurses (63.7%) refuse assisted suicide because of their faith in the sanctity of life. When the order of professional values of these nurses is examined, the value of justice is observed to be the most important one.
Conclusion: All these results taken into consideration, the necessity for evaluating assisted suicide on different grounds such as ethics and law; as well as discussing its social and religious aspects, is obvious.Keywords: Nursing ethics, nursing values,
assisted suicideTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Ethics 2001, 9:49-55
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