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Child Non-Voluntary Euthanasia WHEN QUALITY TRUMPS QUANTITY Child Non-Voluntary Euthanasia WHEN QUALITY TRUMPS QUANTITY JULIA GOYAL1 AND SALVATORE GIULIANO VIVONA2 1Bachelor of Science, Biology (Honours), Class of 2016. 2Bachelor of Science, Biophysics (Honours), Class of 2016 McMaster University Correspondence: [email protected] and [email protected] You sit down on the chair Wolfe investigated parental accounts of symptoms suffered by the hospital bed of by children in the terminal stages of cancer. The results a young girl. The little revealed that 89% of children endured substantial suffering angel is no longer the girl from at least one symptom, with mostly ineffective you knew with her curious treatments, as shown in Figure 1.2 The ineffectiveness eyes, contagious laughter, of symptom treatments leads to a patient’s poor quality and sweet smile. She lies of life until death. Euthanasia, however, is a promising there, as if she is dead. She has alternative as it provides an opportunity for physicians to no recollection of who you are, relieve their patients from intractable suffering rather than where she is, or how she got here. prolong a painful dying process. You try to believe that the doctors are “doing everything they can” and Euthanasia should be given special consideration in it is only a matter of time. But pain, paediatrics, where infants and children who are terminally both hers and your own, consumes you. ill are unable to or are inept at giving legal consent to medical procedures. Legal protocols can provide a safe For decades, the medical community procedure for non-voluntary euthanasia. For example, has debated how best to alleviate the the Groningen Protocol establishes criteria under which pain and suffering of patients while physicians in the Netherlands can euthanize infants 3 opinion respecting moral values and judgement. without fear of prosecution. The protocol outlines four Throughout these years, the field of requirements: “The presence of hopeless and unbearable medicine has birthed new methods suffering and a very poor quality of life, parental consent, and technology to enhance palliative consultation with an independent physician and his or her care. However, at times, the patients’ agreement with the treating physicians, and the carrying conditions only worsen and the use of out of the procedure in accordance with the accepted treatments and medications are to no medical standards.”3 With regards to the first criterion, avail. In these circumstances, euthanasia it is important to recognize that verbally incapacitated provides an alternative solution to the children are unable to explicitly indicate their symptoms suffering of patients and their families. and communicate their suffering to physicians. Instead, Euthanasia is defined as “knowingly and physicians must try to determine the child’s level of intentionally performing an act that is suffering by observing vital signs and behaviour.3 The explicitly intended to end another person’s protocol enforces standards for non-voluntary euthanasia life.”1 It is currently legal in only eight that prioritize morality and the comfort of the patient jurisdictions around the globe. However, in late while providing legal protection for physicians. Its success 2013, Bill 52 by the Québec legislature proposed in the Netherlands indicates that child euthanasia can be to decriminalize euthanasia as a medical aid for authorized and well-accommodated without significant death. Not only has this initiated further debate legal and moral tension in a developed country that on the topic in Canada, but it may encourage other embodies Western cultural values. governments to consider implementing euthanasia. MORALITY AND DIGNITY This opinion piece discusses how legalizing euthanasia would serve the interests of the patient and healthcare system, with a particular focus on child euthanasia. Establishing a legal protocol for non-voluntary child euthanasia not only prioritizes morality and the comfort RELIEF FROM SUFFERING of the patient, but also protects a patient’s dignity. Terminally ill patients may experience an unimaginable Within the clinical setting, there are numerous cases degree of suffering.3 Without the option of euthanasia, MEDUCATOR | APRIL 2014 APRIL | MEDUCATOR where patients experience extreme discomfort caused by they are forced to spend their final moments in a state virtually untreatable illnesses. A 2000 study led by Joanne of severe deterioration. Their worsening state will 7 also occupy their friends’ and relatives’ last 100 Child Non-Voluntary memories of them. This argument hence Treatment Attempted raises the question of whether a newborn or Treatment Successful child has personal dignity. Personal dignity should be defined such that it indiscriminately Euthanasia 50 emphasizes the value of human life, thus entitling children or infants to the same level WHEN QUALITY TRUMPS QUANTITY of dignity as adults. For many, relying on life support for sustenance is neither a dignified nor desirable way to live the last days of one’s 0 Fatigue Pain Dyspnea Poor Nausea/ Constipation Diarrhea life. The loss of independence can cause adult Appetite Vomiting patients to suffer depression and other mental illnesses; a child should not have to be forced A hospitalized child requires a high degree FIGURE 1: In children who showed to endure this experience at such a young of care, but statistical analysis has shown sufferable symptoms, according to age. Circumvention of the suffering through that there are also great financial and social parental accounts., the percentages 8 of successful symptom treatments: euthanasia may be a proper way of preserving burdens placed on the child’s family. Loved Treatments to relieve symptoms morality and dignity. ones struggle emotionally when they witness were seldom successful, as the most HEALTH ECONOMICS the child suffering; this distress is heightened effective treatments for pain and by their inability to meet the patient’s needs. dyspnea were respectively only 27% and 16% effective. Consequently, a Child euthanasia can play a role in optimizing majority of patients were reported Health economics is the study of optimal the utility and performance of the Canadian to have little fun and immense fear, resource allocation to maximize efficiency medical system in the paediatric field as while 63% of the patients appeared 2 and effectiveness in the healthcare system, on well as in relieving loved ones from the distressed to their parents. both an individual and aggregate level. With socioeconomic, psychological, and emotional this understanding, another argument that burdens associated with sustaining the child. supports child euthanasia is the allowance for a better distribution of limited resources CONCLUSION amongst patients. Children suffering from opinion terminal illnesses or medical conditions are In considering the suffering of the patient of the placed in paediatric intensive care units, which patient, preservation of dignity, and economic provide the highest level of medical care pressures, the benefits of implementing child 4 in a hospital. The average daily cost for an euthanasia should not be overlooked. Death is intensive care unit bed in Canada is $3,184, a private matter, and it can be argued that the amounting to over $1 million a year. There are government should not interfere with such a 5 around 3,500 of these beds across the country. personal decision. The Groningen Protocol Based on a cost-benefit analysis, it would be from the Netherlands presents an effective more economical to allocate the hospital bed, routine and structure, setting an example nurse, medication, and financial resources to that can be adopted by other countries 6 1. Canadian Medical Association. Eutha- a child with a reasonable chance of recovery. around the world to practice euthanasia on nasia and assisted suicide [Internet]. Ottawa: Canadian Medical Association; reasonable grounds in paediatrics. Authorizing 2007. [cited 2014 Jan 16]. Available from: http://policybase.cma.ca/dbtw- An efficiency standpoint may appear euthanasia under regulations will also allow wpd/Policypdf/PD07-01.pdf. 2. Wolfe J, Grier HE, Klar N, Levin SB, insensitive and uncompassionate, as one can for more optimal resource allocation in the Ellenbogen JM, Salem-Schatz S, et al. Symptoms and suffering at the end of argue that an infinitesimal chance of recovery Canadian healthcare system. Though illegal life in children with cancer. N Engl J Med. 2000; 342(5): 326-33. is still hope. However, the child in his or now, euthanasia should one day be adopted 3. Verhagen E, Sauer PJ. The Groningen protocol: euthanasia in severely ill her physical state is not only an economic by consensus and no longer regarded as a newborns. N Engl J Med. 2005; 352 (10): 959-62. Available from: http:// burden to the health care system, but is also moral equivalent to killing. It is important to www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/ a source of emotional and physical strain understand that there is a difference between NEJMp058026#t=article. 4. The Nemours Foundation [Internet]. on overlooking physicians and nursing staff. keeping an individual alive and allowing him When your child’s in the pediatric in- tensive care unit. 2012 [cited 2014 Jan Studies show that primary caregivers of or her to truly live; medical technology and 15]. Available from: http://kidshealth. org/parent/system/ill/picu.html#. MEDUCATOR | APRIL 2014 APRIL | MEDUCATOR terminally ill patients experience increased palliative care are not enough to bridge the 5. Dasta JF, McLaughlin TP, Mody SH, Piech CT. Daily cost of an intensive health problems, depression symptoms, and gap between the two. After all, quality trumps care unit day: the contribution of me- 7 ■ chanical ventilation. Crit Care Med. psychosocial stress. This is particularly true quantity, and life is no exception. 2005; 33(6):1266-71. 6. Beck AT, Steer RA, Beck JS, Newman for the close family and friends of the child. CF. Hopelessness, depression, suicidal ideation, and clinical diagnosis of de- pression., Suicide Life Threat Behav.; 23(2); 139-45. REVIEWED BY DR. ELISABETH GEDGE 7. Pruchno RA, Potashnik SL.
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