Paliatívna medicína a liečba bolesti 1-2e/2021

Liquid responsibility and the palliative care during the COVID-19 pandemia

Paper refers on partial results of the project KEGA TTU008-4 2019-2021: Transfer of personal Responsibility as a Modern Type of Evasion and its Postmodern Solution. The project was initiated and lead by the author of the paper since 2019 till 2020. The Liquid Responsibility was identified and confirmed in deciding on various types of problems – on health care, too. It may be seen as a result of the influence of Liquid Evil upon human thinking. Slovakian health care system is deeply postmodern and touched by consequences of liquid responsibility. It causes new type of pain and new challenges for palliative care giving. As one of possibility to solve complications of contemporary situation of menace of humanity – such as evasions out of personal responsibility; may be seen the facing to the situation personally and deep in dialogic of relation. There are no doubts that the COVID-19 pandemia has been missused as an evasion out of personal responsibility not only in health care system, politics, educational system or media, however in common life.

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemia, palliative care, situation of menace of humanity, liquid responsibility, personal responsibility