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[Palliative medicine before euthanasia].

W Astudillo Alarcón·C Mendinueta Aguirre·E Astudillo Alarcón
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Paliative Medicine offers many possibilities to reach a good control of the bothering symptoms of terminal patients and to the support of their families. We review the different causes of suffering, suicide and of request of euthanasia as the process of Medical Decision-Making in the care of the Dying. It is necessary to search for ways to reduce the suffering and to improve the quality of life that remains instead of how to finish it earlier.

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W Astudillo Alarcón, C Mendinueta Aguirre, E Astudillo Alarcón. [Palliative medicine before euthanasia].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8711311/

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