Call to fix palliative care before assisted dying
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Emperor@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9x00v88pzo
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Emperor@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9x00v88pzo
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
As always, why not both?
ladicius@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 weeks 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.