Navarro Estrada, Stella2014-10-182014-10-182014-10-181794-4449http://hdl.handle.net/10567/1174In current times, medicine responds to a scheme in which scientific knowledge is used to get a response that aims to remedy a specific pathology. But several phenomena, such as disease, disability and death are closely linked, having blurred limits and making science insufficient to propose an answer to human suffering. In these situations, it is necessary to create new treatment schemes that allow the consideration of multiple elements that go beyond science to, again, focus on the dignity and the necessities of the human being. This study, therefore, focuses on evaluating the complexity of several events that take place in advanced or terminal pathologies in order to create a plan that can be adapted to the individual. Beyond medical futilities and the autonomy, a methodology that involves medical, ethical, personal, relational, cultural, social and economic aspects is proposed, in order to provide an integral attention to the individual.esCorporación Universitaria LasallistaInstitución Universitaria Colegio Mayor de AntioquiaUniversidad Pontificia BolivarianaCongreso Iberoamericano de Bioética e InvestigaciónDignidad humanaBioéticaPaciente terminalResume