ArticleThe Linacre quarterly2015
Pain medicine and palliative care as an alternative to euthanasia in end-of-life cancer care.
Article in The Linacre quarterly, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- On the topical issue of assisted dying: the insurmountable challenges of human existence, and the right to exit.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- What medical conditions lead to a request for euthanasia? A rapid scoping review.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Voluntary Assisted Dying/Euthanasia: Will This Have an Impact on Cancer Care in Future Years?Current treatment options in oncology · 2023Review
- Medical Faculty Students' Views on Euthanasia: Does It Change With Medical Education?Alpha psychiatry · 2021Article
- Health Care Professionals' Attitudes About Physician-Assisted Death: An Analysis of Their Justifications and the Roles of Terminology and Patient Competency.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2017Article
- [Ethics in intensive care and euthanasia : With respect to inactivating defibrillators at the end of life in terminally ill patients].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2017Review
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Abstract
There exists support for euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in cases of terminal cancer. One of the premises for this approach is the goal of the alleviation of suffering. Do current means of pain control in the greater overall setting of palliative care serve as a desirable alternative? A contrast comparison may be drawn between the above approaches using both theological and medical sources to show that the enlightened use of both interventional and non-interventional pain medicine approaches in an integrated palliative care setting are a theologically grounded and medically feasible alternative to euthanasia or PAS in this population. Lay summary: Patients suffering from terminal cancer often have pain. Some have advocated euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide as a potential way of alleviating this suffering. Further examination of this topic, however, shows this approach may be essentially utilitarian and fail to consider the inherent value of human life. There has been significant development in recent years in the fields of pain medicine and palliative care, which afford alternate means of addressing suffering in this patient population.
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