title: [Life from beginning to end].
abstract: Each instant of life is essential, without us being able to distinguish which is the first and which is the last, without letting go the least of instant, under the cover of our questions concerning death. We have to notice the emergency of experts who take in charge the time following death, when it was precedently the task of the clergy and the relatives. When the doctors, having done everything in their power to save the life of a patient are confronted with the obligation to lessen the level of the medications, particularly for the more complex cases, they only bring back men in his status of men, faced with his death. But to spare his sufferings is an imperative of a humanitarian gesture. The procedure of the establishment of a law in the Senate, slips under the legislation of active euthanasia, which is the open door to every thing we had always refused. Helping someone who is suffering is a given, but killing him by contributing by any mean which would shorten his life, is an important fault which repercussions could shape the future of society at large. The emphasis on the particularity of each case, has to be stressed and it is in this aspect of the unique, that human reflexion will be preserved. A law could be dangerous in the sense that it might "normalize" what should never be. The doctors by taking away some of the pain, even if it is by administrating prescriptions which could cause death, are not doing any thing but holding on to their engagement of taking care of the patient, which implies and consists in not harming him.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sitruk
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D006801:Humans; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000379:methods*