Death With Dignity: Self Sedation Vs. Palliative Sedation
“It’s about who performs the final sedation: You can either pull the plug yourself or let the doctors do it for you,” says Robert Orfali, author of the recently-released Kirkus-starred book Death with Dignity. Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) October 31, 2011 Like other life-shortening palliative measures, asking for a lethal prescription of sleeping pills is physician-assisted dying. In this case, the palliative measure is called “self-sedation.” In the better hospices, the only way to relieve acute terminal pain is by sedating a patient into a coma from which they never wake up. It’s also the onl
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