When terminal sedation is made the object of bioethical discussion, it is mostly in a way that a literary critic might call synecdochal: A part is taken for the whole. What is made the object of ...

In the contentious debate over whether people have a right to die, the staunchest opponents on either side could usually agree on one point — that the terminally ill ought to be made as comfortable as ...

The assisted suicide movement is ever about blurring vital distinctions and deconstructing crucial definitions. One target has been the proper pain control technique known as palliative sedation, a ...

The assisted suicide movement has done much to sow fear and confusion about palliative sedation, sometimes referring to this proper palliative practice as “terminal sedation,” as if the intent is to ...

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In almost every room people were sleeping, but not like babies. This was not the carefree sleep that would restore them to rise and shine for another day. It was the sleep before — and sometimes until ...

Patient-Reported Outcomes After Hepatic Resection of Colorectal Cancer Metastases Palliative sedation is a clinical procedure aimed at relieving refractory symptoms in patients with advanced cancer.

Doctors appear willing to use intensive treatment to lessen otherwise untreatable pain or other severe symptoms in dying patients even if the treatment, at least in theory, risks hastening the dying ...

There are 2 ways of combining terminal sedation with the termination of life-sustaining treatment: Combination of terminal sedation with withdrawing or withholding life-sustaining medical treatment; ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s lower house of parliament has approved a bill that could let doctors keep terminally ill patients sedated until death comes but stops short of legalizing euthanasia or assisted ...

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BC-EU--France-End of Life, 1st Ld-Writethru,322 French lawmakers vote on terminal sedation, not euthanasia Eds: Updates with vote at lower house of parliament PARIS (AP) — France's lower house of ...