Palliative sedation at the end of life is ethically sound and has “an important place on the continuum of appropriate palliative care,” according to a new review article. It is the intent and outcome ...

In the 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 ...

The assisted suicide movement is ever about blurring vital distinctions and deconstructing crucial definitions. One target has been the proper pain control technique known as palliative sedation, a ...

Recent news stories relating to the "end of life" have brought public attention to palliative sedation (PS), a therapeutic procedure about which unfortunately little is known in the healthcare world ...

Toward the end, the pain had practically driven Elizabeth Martin mad. By then, the cancer had spread everywhere, from her colon to her spine, her liver, her adrenal glands and one of her lungs.

The assisted suicide movement has done much to sow fear and confusion about palliative sedation, sometimes referring to this proper palliative practice as “terminal sedation,” as if the intent is to ...

Brother Carlos J. Ramos Morales, a member of the Fraternal Society of Mercy, helps a terminally ill participant in 2015 at Belen Community near Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn) ROME ...

SINCE 2002 Belgium has been one of the very few countries in the world in which doctors can perform euthanasia. Patients need to be in a hopeless state of constant and unbearable physical or mental ...

When his mother, Rosemary, was dying from cancer, he witnessed a different kind of suffering—intractable and without purpose. “It was cruel. Nobody should have to suffer like that. She should have had ...

Brother Carlos J. Ramos Morales, a member of the Fraternal Society of Mercy, helps a terminally ill participant in 2015 at Belen Community near Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. (Credit: Tyler Orsburn/CNS.) ...