佛教生死观在中国的临终关怀语境

Buddhist View of Life and Death in the Chinese Hospice Care Context

鉴于目前我国在临终照护中频发的医疗纠纷和各种医疗诚信乱象,本文试图从传统文化中佛教与儒学生死哲学观的比对中,探讨佛教生死观念在临终关怀语境下的作用,以资重新确立临终关怀的本土文化概念,希冀能够对本土临终护理事业的理论发展与实践起到一定的帮助。认为借鉴现代临终关怀实施的核心策略——积极构建患者新的人际关系,嵌入佛教生死哲学的悟性,可以达成生死抉择上的精神引导作用。通过研究本族文化根基的概念衍生临终关怀的中国理念,是本论证议题援引佛教生死理念及儒学生死哲学的本意。

In view of the frequent occurrences of medical disputes in hospice care and various chaos that devi- ate from medical integrity, this article attempts to explore the role of Buddhist concept of life and death in the hos- pice context through comparison of the traditional philosophy of the life and death of Buddhism and Confucianism for the purpose of re - establishing the hospice concept of local culture and contributing to the theory development and practice of local hospice nursing career. This article holds that the spirit guiding role on the choice of life and death can be reached by learning from the core strategies of the modem hospice implementation, that is, to build new positive relationships with patients and introducing to them the perception of Buddhist philosophy of llfe and death. It is the intention of this argument to initiate the Chinese hospice concept derived through the study of the cultural roots of the family concept on the basis of introduction of the concept of Buddhist and the Confucian philosophies of life and death.