ArticleHealth (London, England : 1997)2022
Medicalisation, suffering and control at the end of life: The interplay of deep continuous palliative sedation and assisted dying.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The experience of nurses when providing care across acts that may be perceived as death hastening: A qualitative evidence synthesis.Palliative medicine · 2025Pooled it
- "Reconciling"- conceptualising the grieving process of family members involved in assisted dying: a grounded formal theory.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Conceptual barriers to palliative sedation: insights from focus group interviews with specialist palliative care professionals.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- An easier way to die?-A qualitative interview study on specialist palliative care team members' views on dying under sedation.Palliative medicine · 2025Article
- Individual characteristics influencing the general population's level of knowledge of end-of-life practices: a cross-sectional study.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Article
- Death and dying in Ghana: Implications for palliative and end-of-life care.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Review
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- Continuous palliative sedation until death: a qualitative study of palliative care clinicians' experiences.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- Psychometric Testing of the Spanish Modified Version of the Mini-Suffering State Examination.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Medicalisation is a pervasive feature of contemporary end of life and dying in Western Europe and North America. In this article, we focus on the relationship between two specific aspects of the medicalisation of dying: deep continuous palliative sedation until death and assisted dying. We draw upon a qualitative interview study with 29 health professionals from three jurisdictions where assisted dying is lawful: Flanders, Belgium; Oregon, USA; and Quebec, Canada. Our findings demonstrate that the relationship between palliative sedation and assisted dying is often perceived as fluid and complex. This is inconsistent with current laws as well as with ethical and clinical guidelines according to which the two are categorically distinct. The article contributes to the literature examining health professionals' opinions and experiences. Moreover, our findings inform a discussion about emergent themes: suffering, timing, autonomy and control - which appear central in the wider discourse in which both palliative sedation and assisted dying are situated, and which in turn relate to the wider ideas about what constitutes a 'good death'.
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