Euthanasia: Death Humanitarian

Abstract

In veterinary medicine euthanasia is a very common practice, where it aims to interrupt the animal's suffering, due to some pathology that has no cure or painful processes. The word euthanasia according to the dictionary means a death without pain or suffering. Based on the position of being able to carry out this process and also having the competence to be able to evaluate and decide when euthanasia should be carried out, the veterinarian must know what methods and procedures are allowed and prohibited before carrying out this process. As it is still a very controversial procedure for many people to understand, veterinarians end up not receiving all the recognition they deserve, and often for lack of information, after all this is one of the most delicate situations found in this profession. This work aims to gather and expose the maximum amont of information about euthanasia in the literature, and to emphasize that this procedure is bases on legislation, and to be able to clarify that it is a procedure that is necessary to be more debated during academic life, why in professional life the veterinarian life must be prepared to decide when to perform and deal with external factors, such as psychological impacts.