THE DEATH: A MOMENT OF THE LIFE

Abstract

This work intends to describe an experience lived front to a situation of imminent death, of a young patient, where the health staff decided not to intervene with the cycle of the life. In this process we analyzed the problematic a lived deeply for health staff, detaching the faced difficulties and ethical conflicts through these subject. Finally, it is perceived that the same technology, that, it searches to keep the alive people generates a interrogation front to its use in a terminal patient, therefore questions the right of if to draw out the life when its quality is compromised.