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> [...] we do already have palliative care. Why not improve much further on this front Because it simply isn't possible in some cases. That's also what the doc
by float4 6y ago
> [...] we do already have palliative care. Why not improve much further on this front
Because it simply isn't possible in some cases. That's also what the doctors in the PDF I linked to state, but it's Dutch so I can't blame you for not reading it of course.
1. "Parents and doctors acknowledge different kinds of physical, existential and psychosocial suffering. This suffering cannot be treated fully with medicine"
2. "There are cases of severe, untreatable suffering in children for which no treatments are applicable. [...] In two cases, the decision was made to not give food and fluids to a physiologically stable child."
3. "Multiple children with metabolic, neurological and neuro-oncological disorders had difficult to treat epilepsy in the final phase of their life. Different parents describe the process of dying of their child as 'inhumane' and 'traumatising for the child'"
etc. etc.