In the treatment of terminally ill patients, is it logical to permit physicians to provide palliative sedation that is given with the intent of relieving suffering but that also can be reasonably expected to make a patient die more quickly while prohibiting physicians from using palliative sedation with the intent of causing the death of a patient?
Is it because in terminal sedation the intention is to relieve intolerable suffering?
Help please?
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Yes, I agree.
I agree also, but frankly, intent is mainly in the eye of the beholder. In my lifetime, a lot of lawyers in suits have proposed much malicious intent where there was none, for nefarious reasons of their own....at least that is my read on their intent.