MONTEIRO, Filipe. Intensive medicine in the End-of-life Care: Considerations on the disposition of the Catholic church. []. , 13, 4, pp.605-612. ISSN 0873-2159.

End-of-life care cyclically occupies the headlines of the mass media. The disposition of the Catholic church, this matter, although unknown to many, has been the subject of discussion and controversy. In this article we analysed various documents of that religious institution, as well as the opinion of some well known personalities who studied this theme from a Catholic perspective.

: Ethics; intensive medicine; end-of-life; Catholic church.

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