Phenomenology and the ethics of dying: reclaiming the lived meaning of death in contemporary clinical practice in South Asia — a narrative review
Philosophy Ethics and Humanities in Medicine October 22, 2026 Silva Shehan, Udayangani Ramadasa, Saroj Jayasinghe
Advances in biomedical technology have transformed dying into a prolonged, technological process in which clinical attention can drift from the person to physiological parameters. This narrative review argues that phenomenology offers an essential ethical corrective by foregrounding the lived experience of dying and complementing procedural bioethics, with particular attention to South Asia,...