ABSTRACT
Traditional attitudes toward death and dying are changing due to developments in medical technology. Medical knowledge informs people of basic signs and symptoms of various forms of cancer, how to prevent heart attacks and how to live a healthy life. Attitudes are changing through seminars, courses and training programs that are especially designed to enlighten health care professionals and the general public about the phenomen of death and dying. Health care professionals have course work included in their curricula preparing themselves to develop the skills that are required for effective intervention with people who are dying. Despite the diversity of experience and knowledge that each practitioner brings to health care, each person must deal with individual concerns about ethics in this age of health technology. Modern health care requires that the ethics issues be resolved through a system of determined clarification for professionals who deal in the critical areas of health care practice.
