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Post-mortem dignity between piety and professionalism. Plea for a moment of silence in everyday clinical practice
Fürholzer, K. · Ethik in der Medizin · 2023 · Heft 11 · S. 529 bis 544
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The alarming noise of medicineIn Dylan Thomas’s poem Do not go gentle into that good night (Thomas 1952, p. 18), the lyrical speaker vehemently resists the impending death of his father with all the strength he can muster: Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. The Dylanian rage against the inevitability of death, which is both psychologically understandable and ethically explainable, imparts a unique shade of meaning to the concept of the “death throe” and also serves as a poignant reflection of a common attitude within mod…
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postmortale Menschenwürde
Pietät
Schweigen
klinische Praxis
Kommunikationsethik
medizinische Humanwissenschaften
Postmortem Dignity
Silence
Medical Ethics
Communication
Humanities
Ethik in der Medizin
