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  2. 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 ...

  3. Anywhere on Earth - Wikipedia

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    This means that the deadline has not passed if, anywhere on Earth, the deadline date has not yet passed. The day's end AoE occurs at noon Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of the following day, [3] Howland and Baker Islands being halfway around the world from the prime meridian that is the base reference longitude for UTC. Thus, in standard ...

  4. 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.

  5. Life expectancy isn't rising as much, the health consequences ...

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    The 10-year deadline doesn’t start for three years, and some cities with large numbers of lead pipes may be given a longer time frame. Show comments Advertisement

  6. Time limit - Wikipedia

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    A time limit or deadline is a narrow field of time, or a particular point in time, by which an objective or task must be accomplished. Once that time has passed, the item may be considered overdue (e.g., for work projects or school assignments). In the case of work assignments or projects that are not completed by the deadline, this may ...

  7. End-of-life care - Wikipedia

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    Decisions about end-of-life care are often informed by medical, financial and ethical considerations. [3] [4] [1] In most developed countries, medical spending on people in the last twelve months of life makes up roughly 10% of total aggregate medical spending, while those in the last three years of life can cost up to 25%. [5]

  8. Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient - Wikipedia

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    The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was a care pathway in the United Kingdom (excluding Wales) covering palliative care options for patients in the final days or hours of life. It was developed to help doctors and nurses provide quality end-of-life care, to transfer quality end-of-life care from the hospice to hospital ...

  9. List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia

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    The last of numerous apocalyptic predictions by this Anglican evangelist and author; this prediction was published in 1894. [97] 1910 Camille Flammarion: Flammarion predicted that the 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet "would impregnate that atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet" but not the planet itself. "Comet pills" were ...