Re: Hospice/Palliative Care

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:58:11 +0000 (UTC), phoenix@xxxxxxx (Damien
Sullivan) wrote:


On the other hand, you can kill your livestock outright. And I've had a
doctor say to me that he's required to keep a human alive through
terminal pain and suffering that would be unethical for a pet. There's

That raises another problem. I was at some lecture wth several
presenters where one said that one can always relieve pain with enough
pain killer, but people in the audience said that despite that, the
doctor will often refuse to give enough pain killer because he is a
afraid to kill the patient. This was my mother's greatest fear. The
doctor talked about theory, those in the audience talked about the
reality they had experienced.



a different balance of what you can do toward minimizing suffering.

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