There are 2 ways of combining terminal sedation with the termination of life-sustaining treatment: Combination of terminal sedation with withdrawing or withholding life-sustaining medical treatment; ...

The assisted suicide movement is ever about blurring vital distinctions and deconstructing crucial definitions. One target has been the proper pain control technique known as palliative sedation, a ...

Re “Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death: Drug-Induced Sleep” (“Months to Live” series, front page, Dec. 27): Bravo to The New York Times for its in-depth reporting on palliative sedation. When death ...

While the U.S. Supreme Court does not object to a medical practice that places a higher priority on alleviating pain than maintaining a patient’s life, whether individual doctors do can vary by their ...

The It’s-Okay-to-Kill-the Sick-Crowd intentionally blur distinctions and destroy definitions in their quest for legalizing/normalizing doctor-prescribed death and even, Final Exit Network ghoul helium ...

PARIS (AP) – France’s president wants to allow doctors to keep terminally ill patients sedated until death comes, amid a national debate about whether to legalize euthanasia. Francois Hollande stopped ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s lower house of parliament has approved a bill that could let doctors keep terminally ill patients sedated until death comes but stops short of legalizing euthanasia or assisted ...

Terminal cancer patients who receive continuous deep sedation to ease pain at the end of life might not die any sooner than people who don't get this type of palliative care, a Japanese study suggests ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s Parliament started debate Tuesday on a bill aimed at allowing doctors to keep terminally ill patients sedated until death comes, amid national debate about whether to legalize ...

PARIS — France's lower house of Parliament approved a bill Tuesday that allows doctors to keep terminally ill patients sedated until death comes, a move sure to ignite more debate about end-of-life ...

When terminal sedation is made the object of bioethical discussion, it is mostly in a way that a literary critic might call synecdochal: A part is taken for the whole. What is made the object of ...

PARIS – France’s Parliament has approved a bill that will let doctors keep terminally ill patients sedated until death comes but stops short of legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide. After years ...