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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

That pathway already exists - medical school

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Unfortunately, I think you could be right. If AD at its heart is considered a treatment for intolerable suffering, it will be hard to restrict it to arbitrary parameters - especially the prognosis estimate

The oversimplification of the #AD debate is troubling. There are no 'goodies' & 'baddies' here, only people: with varying experience of living & dying, some with professional insights into applying law to medicine in complex circs, or into the myriad ways people & medicine respond to illness.
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And about 46m can’t think of a bigger waste of time

Inevitable

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It’s our responsibility as docs to empower patients to make informed decisions & plan ahead. To do that properly means taking the time to discuss options. Also, I think terms like ‘refusal’ carry a lot of negative connotations & is often an unfair way to describe often reasonable, personal decisions

Don’t you think there’s a distinction between stopping trying to keep someone alive (allowing natural death) vs actively killing someone? It’s the difference between asking someone to stop doing something to you vs asking someone to do something to you. Quite different I think