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.
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.