Call to fix palliative care before assisted dying

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As always, why not both?

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  • ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep. It could indeed become integrated as it already somehow is, at least over here in Germany: If you are in end of life care the doctors will help you with a lot of medication to painlessly die. In that stage nearly nobody suffers anymore.

    Just change the guidelines a little bit, find medical staff who are sympathetic to the cause, and a lot of suffering will be no more.

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    • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apparently it used to be more like that here in the past until a doctor called Harold Shipman helped loads of people die who didn’t actually want to die.

      It made a lot people uneasy about doctors administering lethal doses of painkillers.

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