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BETANCOURT BETANCOURT, Gilberto de Jesús  y  RIVERO CASTILLO, José Armando. Therapeutic effort limitation: religious and cultural aspects . Rev Hum Med [online]. 2015, vol.15, n.1, pp.145-162. ISSN 1727-8120.

The understanding of death varies according to time, culture, religion, and age. Previous to the development that medical sciences has undergone since the end of the XIX Century, in most cultures and religions there have been an acceptation of death and considered as part of the person vital cycle in which one would transcend to a celestial and purely supernatural form. The scientific advances in medicine have emerged to change this situation. Death began to be seen as an enemy and gave rise to an enraged struggle between both of them. The concept of natural death was changed into intervened death, which originated numerous related questions with decision and action taking to be performed in hospitalized patients and those in terminal situation. In this work a theoretical reflection is performed whose objective is the bioethical analysis on the differences among religious and cultural aspects related to the practice of therapeutic effort limitation.

Palabras clave : religion; bioethical principles; therapeutic effort limitation.

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