Dysthanasia

In medicine, dysthanasia means "bad death" [cite journal | author = Kothari M, Mehta L, Kothari V | title = Cause of death--so-called designed event acclimaxing timed happenings. | journal = J Postgrad Med | volume = 46 | issue = 1 | pages = 43–51 | year = | pmid = 10855082 [http://www.jpgmonline.com/article.asp?issn=0022-3859;year=2000;volume=46;issue=1;spage=43;epage=51;aulast=Kothari Free Full Text] .] and is considered a common fault of modern medicine: [cite journal | author = Batchelor A, Jenal L, Kapadia F, Streat S, Whetstine L, Woodcock B | title = Ethics roundtable debate: should a sedated dying patient be wakened to say goodbye to family? | journal = Crit Care | volume = 7 | issue = 5 | pages = 335–8 | year = 2003 | pmid = 12974961 | doi = 10.1186/cc2329 [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=270714 Free Full Text] .] :"With artificial ventilation, ventricular assist devices, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, it can be extremely difficult to die in a medical center with access to these advanced modalities of life support."

Dysthanasia is a term generally used when a person is seen to be kept alive artificially in a condition where, otherwise, they cannot survive; typically for some sort of ulterior motive. The term was used frequently in the investigation into the death of Formula One driver Ayrton Senna in 1994.

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ee also

*Brain death
*Death
*Euthanasia
*Tachythanasia