What is the relationship between assisted suicide dying and palliative care?
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What is the purpose of palliative care?
In 2002 the World Health Organization (WHO) defined palliative care as:
‘An approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.’
According to the WHO definition, palliative care specif...
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