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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

Influence of Letrozole and Anastrozole on Total Body Aromatization and Plasma Estrogen Levels in Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Patients Evaluated in a Randomized, Cross-Over Study PURPOSE: To clarify ...

We have had a number of posts of late regarding medical aid-in-dying, so I was interested in this article in the Washington Post, Assisted suicide is controversial, but palliative sedation is legal ...

(Reuters Health) - Terminal cancer patients who receive continuous deep sedation to ease pain at the end of life might not die any sooner than people who don’t get this type of palliative care, a ...

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 ...

The result of the comparison of the arguments pro and con regarding terminal sedation in contexts of euthanasia was that this option is clearly preferable to assisted suicide. This result does not, ...

Show More From the Seirei Hospice, Seirei Mikatabara Hospital, Hamamatsu; Psycho-Oncology Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute East, Kashiwa; and Psychiatry Division, National Cancer ...

PARIS | France's president wants to allow doctors to keep terminally ill patients sedated until death comes, amid a national debate about whether to legalize euthanasia. Francois Hollande stopped ...