The Difference Between “Terminal Sedation” and “Euthanasia” is…Well…Time
Terminal sedation [is] a treatment that is already widely used, even as it vexes families and a profession whose paramount rule is to do no harm.
Doctors who perform it say it is based on carefully thought-out ethical principles in which the goal is never to end someone’s life, but only to make the patient more comfortable.
Full report on terminal sedation from The New York Times.
Actually, there is hardly any difference at all.
Has any body wondered if there is a secret plan to cut health care costs by just sedating end-of-life patients?
Vicki, it’s called “ObamaCare.”
I think uthanasia by any other name is still uthanasia.
Terminal sedation is …. well….terminal.
Sounds like the name of a heavy metal band.
Secret plan to kill old people to save money? Paranoid much?
And it’s spelled euthanasia. The common term for which is assisted suicide.
Terminal or palliative sedation is the means by which a doctor or attending medical provider can prevent a dying person from suffering. It is legal in all 50 states because of what’s called the “double effect”: a doctor’s objective is to alleviate pain and not end life. And studies, despite the NYT article have shown that sedation does not shorten life.