Palliative care is not the same as euthanasia. Palliative care is when the doctors know that death is imminent so they provide you with drugs that will make you suffer less during those final moments. It is not suicide because the purpose is not to make you die quicker, the purpose is to make sure you die without as much pain.
Euthanasia is not when death is imminent and is the intentional killing of a person via drugs. There are a few states that allow it for anyone who wishes to end their life. They do not even have to be in pain at the moment they choose to be euthanized. They are required to have a terminal illness, but they could still have years of their life left with treatment. It is by all means suicide.
Palliative care is when the doctors know that death is imminent so they provide you with drugs that will make you suffer less during those final moments.
That is the official theory. The practice is that morphine is administered in doses that are sure to kill the patient. Accelerating the death of the dying is considered an implicit benefit. I have personally witnessed the acceleration of dying being explicitly described as a benefit by the attending physician.
Palliative care is not the same as euthanasia. Palliative care is when the doctors know that death is imminent so they provide you with drugs that will make you suffer less during those final moments. It is not suicide because the purpose is not to make you die quicker, the purpose is to make sure you die without as much pain.
Euthanasia is not when death is imminent and is the intentional killing of a person via drugs. There are a few states that allow it for anyone who wishes to end their life. They do not even have to be in pain at the moment they choose to be euthanized. They are required to have a terminal illness, but they could still have years of their life left with treatment. It is by all means suicide.
That is the official theory. The practice is that morphine is administered in doses that are sure to kill the patient. Accelerating the death of the dying is considered an implicit benefit. I have personally witnessed the acceleration of dying being explicitly described as a benefit by the attending physician.
Death ends all suffering.