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...contentious debate over whether people have a right to die, the staunchest opponents on either side could usually agree on one point - that the terminally ill ought to be made as comfortable as possible in their final days. But a controversial procedure is now calling into question even that accord...
Terminal sedation is the decision to keep dying patients, who cannot be made comfortable in any other way, unconscious until they die. As a last resort, such drug-induced sedation is legal in most countries including the U.S., and it is widely accepted as a mainstay of end-of-life care. Opponents of terminal sedation argue, however, that some doctors misuse the practice as a substitute for euthanasia. A study published last week in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) indicates this may be the case in the Netherlands. Physician-assisted suicide has been legal there - though highly regulated - since...
...doctors may be issuing the treatment either too early or without the patient's consent - or that they are using it to sidestep legal requirements to perform euthanasia. Nine percent of the patients in the study had in fact asked for euthanasia before being sedated. "Sedating someone until they die is a one-size-fits-all solution, but thoughtful pain management requires time and money," Byock says, noting that plans should always be discussed with patients and families well in advance. "One shouldn't be a substitute for another...
...days following a C-section, a woman will be at an elevated risk of potentially fatal blood clots or infections. This is common to all major surgery, but means that more women die as a result of cesarean section than in natural childbirth. The U.S. figure of 12.1 maternal deaths per 100,000 births in 2003 becomes 36 if only cesareans are considered - and the difference, according to Obstetrics and Gynecology, is "attributable to the surgery itself, not any complications that might have led to the need for surgery...
...demonstrators, “Fight the good fight. Keep it up. Remember, it took a long time to end the Vietnam War.”A band played a modified version of the 1960s song “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die.” People in the crowd sang along to the refrain–“And it’s one, two, three, what we fighting for?”Jarret A. Zafran ’09, president of the Harvard College Democrats, spoke next, calling...