As I've said - it is only assisted suicide, if it is suicide. If I wanted a drug for suicide, I would want it to kill me within minutes. If I want a drug for pain relief, and taking it means I die in 10 days and not 15 days, that isn't 'suicide'.
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Thanks Wayne. I'm going to have to do some more homework on this. It's a case of when, not if I'm going to need to know this.
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1/2 Clearly drugs should be 'titrated against pain'. So you start with a low dose. The issue, for known end-of-life, hinges on whether you stop titrating against pain because the increased dose necessary to remove the pain might also shorten life: in my view the increased dose
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2/2 necessary to remove the patient's pain, is still legally okay PROVIDED the patient has requested the administration of the drug and has given informed consent.
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depends on the condition, but with the right care...only 7% cannot be helped by modern pain management. The issue with the LCP is people deliberately put to death when they could have lived pain-free lives but cost the state a pension. c
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Exactly, it's easy for these drs to write such a report. I mean what did they do ....bring them back to life and ask them if they felt any pain
#sarcastic? Allegedly many who were pulled off eol and went on to live said they had extreme thirst and were in pain due to EOLC tacticspic.twitter.com/RJbB3EMjXR
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I don't like 'death by dehydration' if that is painful: which is why I support attempts to legalise medically-assisted suicide - but it MUST BE suicide (the PATIENT must be the decision-maker). Anyway - LCP not always 'fatal', then (I've previously tweeted about that).
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