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2. Terminal illness - Wikipedia

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   Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer, dementia, advanced heart disease, and for HIV/AIDS, or long COVID in bad cases, rather than for injury.

3. 'I'm dying, you're not': Those terminally ill ask more states ...

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   A bill moving through the Illinois Legislature to allow certain terminally ill patients to end their own lives with a doctor’s help had made progress. At least 12 states currently have bills ...

4. Palliative sedation - Wikipedia

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   In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative ...

5. Assisted dying bill: What it means for patients - as ... - AOL

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   An Assisted Dying Bill, which would have allowed some terminally ill adults to ask for medical help to end their life, went before the Commons in 2015 and was rejected by MPs.

6. End-of-life care - Wikipedia

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   Women were also more likely to have provided palliative care over their lifetimes, with 16% of women reporting having done so, compared with 10% of men. These caregivers helped terminally ill family members or friends with personal or medical care, food preparation, managing finances or providing transportation to and from medical appointments ...

7. NH urged to allow terminally ill to choose death: 'I want it ...

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   And I strongly believe that medical aid in dying is one of the most profoundly beneficial options for terminally ill patients to peacefully end unbearable pain and suffering at the end of life.” ...