In the beginning euthanasia was seen as a last resort in a situation of extreme physical suffering. Now, increasingly, euthanasia is considered to be a patient's right and is considered by some even to be a fashionable death."
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She fears there could be pressure on health professionals to use doctor assisted death to free up hospital beds if patients have consented in advance. “I am calling it death by doctor, not death with the assistance of a doctor, but death when the doctor decides you are going to die,” she said. “I don’t think health professionals want that as an approach.”
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Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness.
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People are afraid of palliative care; many refuse early referral, which results in protracted and avoidable pain and suffering. Some even suspect that pain medication might inadvertently hasten their death (it will not). Requiring palliative care services to include medical assistance in dying would do little to assuage those fears.
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