Advances in medical technology and pharmacology have made it possible today to extend the life of patients who have no hope of living. There is hardly any serious disease that has an exclusively physiological progression. This possibility of ‘controlling’ the time of death has raised serious ethical and legal issues in those cases where life-support machines cannot provide a cure and a prospect of life, but merely prevent death from occurring.
The members of the Laboratory for the Study of Medical Law and Bioethics of the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – after thorough discussions – came to the following proposals for the amendment of the current legislation, which are contained in the 2nd Opinion of the Laboratory.
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