Adopted by the 39th World Medical Assembly,
Madrid, Spain, October 1987
and reaffirmed at the 170th Council Session, Divonne-les-Bains,
France, May 2005
Euthanasia, that is the act of deliberately ending the life
of a patient, even at the patient's own request or at the request
of close relatives, is unethical. This does not prevent the physician
from respecting the desire of a patient to allow the natural process
of death to follow its course in the terminal phase of sickness. |
