Physician-Assisted Suicide

Wolf, Susan M.

doi:10.1016/j.cger.2004.10.001

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“…They suggested that there was a grey area between end of life sedation and euthanasia and that the intentions of end of life sedation should be clarified [54]. Whereas a previous narrative review from the USA, with a bias against PAS, suggested that 'expert pain relief and palliative care, including sedation to unconsciousness when necessary, should be widely available' [55]. 'The goal of palliative terminal sedation is to provide the dying patient relief of otherwise refractory, intolerable symptoms, and it is therefore firmly within the realm of good, supportive palliative care and is not euthanasia,' [56] (p. 407).…”

Section: The Netherlands and Belgiummentioning

confidence: 99%

Treatment, Palliative Care or Euthanasia? Comparing End of Life Issues in Human and Veterinary Medicine

Eyre-Pugh¹,

Yeates²

2017

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Not a lot is known about either death or the dying process. Politicians and the medical profession in the UK tend to shy away from interfering with it by not allowing euthanasia as an end of life option for the patient. This is the first paper in a series of two, comparing the situation in human medicine and veterinary medicine, in which euthanasia is well practiced for relieving suffering at the end of life. This first part takes the form of a literature review including best practice around end of life care, its deficiencies and the need for assisted dying. Veterinary surgeons are well trained in the ethics of euthanasia and put it to good use in the best interest of their animal patients. In countries which have legalized physician assisted suicide for the terminally ill reporting indicates that it works well, without increases in involuntary euthanasia and most importantly without intimidation of the vulnerable. However, there is still an ever increasing tendency to overuse sedation and opioids at the end of life, which merits further investigation. With advances in medical science able to significantly prolong the dying process, patient autonomy demands a review of the law in the UK.

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Section: The Netherlands and Belgiummentioning

confidence: 99%