抄録
Dying with dignity means as follows; terminally ill patients should be cared not to live along more, but to be cared to become comfortable, that is to say, not to suffer from pain or agony, to continue to have consciousness to his/her death, and to continue to live with the dignity as a human being to the end, which is in other word natural death. This is far from euthanasia. Euthanasia is to make die a patient, because his/her pain or agony is intractable. In the background of the appearance of dying with dignity, there has been development of bioethics and citizens' need for quality of life. So, in order to accomplish dying with dignity, any citizen live everyday with dignity, and care-giver should brush up the philosophy in medicine and perform comprehensive medicine.
