"Palliative sedation, which has often been held up as a more legally and morally sound alternative to euthanasia, may in fact have become a different form of euthanasia, Belgian researchers say.
Rather than putting chronically ill patient under heavy drugs to help make their deaths as painless as possible, continuous sedation “is frequently used to hasten the patient’s death,” Vrije Univesiteit Brussel researcher Sam Rys says in a surprising new study..."
http://www.providermagazine.com/news/Pages/0914/Continuing-Sedation-a-Fig-Leaf-for-Euthanasia,-Study-Finds.aspx
Rather than putting chronically ill patient under heavy drugs to help make their deaths as painless as possible, continuous sedation “is frequently used to hasten the patient’s death,” Vrije Univesiteit Brussel researcher Sam Rys says in a surprising new study..."
http://www.providermagazine.com/news/Pages/0914/Continuing-Sedation-a-Fig-Leaf-for-Euthanasia,-Study-Finds.aspx