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Euthanasia in the Czech Republic and Switzerland
CHERLOTTE, Petra
The thesis deals with euthanasia in the Czech Republic and in Switzerland. It analyses the health system in these countries and the quality of palliative care there. It concerns with the Act on Public Services and focuses on euthanasia from the Czech legislative point of view. Next, the thesis deals with the issue of assisted suicide and its legislation in Switzerland and with the activities of organisations Exit and Dignitas, where the assisted suicide is carried out. It characterises Swiss health models and schemes and compares palliative care. An important role is played by ambulatory service provider Spitex specialized in home care. The conclusion of the thesis is the comparison of Czech and Swiss systems.
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The Question of Need of Thanatopedagogy
ŠÍMOVÁ, Jana
The Thesis deals with the question of the need for thanatopedagogy. The aim of the Thesis is to construct a possible new field of study, to define it, and to examine its content. The focus of the Thesis is on the interconnection between pedagogy and thanatology and is theoretical only. The first chapter is devoted to the science of thanathology, that is the process of death and dying. It contains general information about this science, and also addresses the benefit of thanatology to mankind. The second part focuses on pedagogy, whilst addressing the interdependence of pedagogy and thanatology. From these theoretical foundations the new discipline of thanatopedagogy will develop.
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The death and the dying in a view of a worker in a direct care in a small establishment for seniors
TEJKALOVÁ, Blanka
This work deals with improving the provision of palliative care in institutions such as social residential facility, the factors that affect the provision of palliative care. All this from the perspective of direct care staff employed at this facility. Installations center Blanka Diakonie ČCE in town Písek, which provides its clients with comprehensive quality social services. This quality is due to the employees who perform their job with love and tend to their services increasingly improved.
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Dying process and needs of dying persons.
SMILKOVÁ, Božena
The thesis studies the process of dying with a special focus on the needs of dying persons, aiming to provide a complete outline of typical needs. The first section compares and contrasts the process of dying in the past and the present, identifies the stages of the dying process and addresses the psychological issues of hope and human dignity. The next section clearly outlines the needs of dying persons, in particular it discusses the issues of pain management, conversations about truth, accompanying a dying person and understanding the meaning of life and suffering. In order to see how these needs are met, the thesis looks at hospice care, in comparison to euthanasia requested by the ill person.
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Bioethic in the public discourse
ŠIMKOVÁ, Petra
From time to time there comes to a stirring up of a society-wide discussion on bioethical issues ? abortion, prenatal diagnosis, assisted reproduction and euthanasia in the Czech Republic. This social discussion is largely influenced by media which present to us interesting news or a story, but it is necessary to realize that these topics have a much broader scope and potential impacts than it is served up to us by media. A wide range of debaters as well as professional and lay public regularly express to bioethical issues relating to the beginning and the end of life. For a fruitful discussion it is necessary to clearly define and specify concepts, because often there is a misguided discussion without any expected results. In the past there was no need to deal with such issues very much, because the order was in hands of Nature. Not completely healthy individuals failed to conceive a child, an unwanted foetus was carried to term and its sex was a surprise for parents and finally, people died naturally according to their age or after a lost match with a disease. For many people Nature, for others some Higher Order. Of course, an incredible scientific development enabled such miracles of which we would have not dreamt hundred years ago yet. We have gained many rights, freedom and democracy as well as a wide-ranging choice. Today we can decide whether to become pregnant and in the same way we can decide that we get rid of the full womb from different reasons. Using diagnostic methods we can determine what a child we carry bellow the heart, but with the help of the same technique it can become uncomfortable for us. We can be treated and live even a century and in many places we can lawfully decide that our life has no meaning and we can finish it. The aim of the diploma thesis is to map readers´ awareness of bioethical issues using a secondary analysis of printed documents from three chosen Czech dailies in 2000 ? 2010 years. To track what triggered a debate among the readers, who discussed and what stance adopted the readers on the issue. The secondary objective was also the mapping of all proponents´ and opponents´ arguments of selected topics and comparing the results with the professional literature. The research shows that the public debate was always sparked by an event presented by the media, to which subsequently responded readers from all areas. According to the research results the public awareness of bioethical issues has been formed mostly by experts directly involved in bioethical dilemmas or carrying out such a profession, in which bioethics greatly interferes. Readers of diverse composition participated in the discussion and the most represented group was a group of experts and a group of lay debaters.
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Human dignity in old age
PEKÁRKOVÁ, Lenka
The work is aimed on the concept of human dignity in terms of age. The first chapter is devoted to the basic definition of human dignity and human rights. I describe a certain views of human dignity and human rights. The second chapter is devoted to the perspectives of an age and changes in the old age, which are of great importance for the preservation of human dignity. An important part of an old age is a matter of dying, which is nowadays bound with a form of palliative care associated with the difficult ethical issue of euthanasia. The concluding part summarizes the problem of an old age that is not an easy life stage for everybody, and therefore it is important to try, in the term of the helping profession, to keep the human dignity of the old people if they do not meet it in their neighbourhood.
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Types of Love in the Context of Bioethical Arguments
SMRČKOVÁ, Leona
The thesis deals with kinds of love, their classification and characteristics. Another topic is euthanasia, its classification and arguments in favour of/against its legalisation. The basic aim of the thesis is to describe these concepts and to try to find a connection between them, to try to answer the question whether love can be argument for euthanasia, and if it can, then why.It tries to find possibilities and ways of action motivated by love, using cases already published of terminally ill people. It searches for the benefits of these findings for the work of a social worker.
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The Questions of the Beginning and the End of Human Life
ČADOVÁ, Marie
This work deals with the problems of conception, gravidity and abortion in the first part and in the second part than deals with problems of death and dying. It concerns two cut-off points, which are component parts of human life. The first part surveis the biginning of human life and tries to find answers for questions, which have a connection with the conception, artifical insemination, surrogative maternity and abortion. It describes paradoxes, which comes from such situations. It appreciates this paradoxes in the wiev of medicin, ethics, psychology and law. The second part describes the end of the human life in several forms. It broods killing, suicide and euthansia in aspects of the psychology, medicine, law and ethics. In the end it describes the palliative care as an alternativ to euthansia.
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