terminal sedation

English

Noun

terminal sedation

  1. The act of drugging a dying patient into a coma and withholding food and water until they die.
    • 2003, Ian Dowbiggin, A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America, Oxford University Press, page 175:
      [The physician] Timothy Quill objects to the hypocrisy of outlawing physician-assisted suicide while permitting the practice of physicians drugging pain-wracked dying patients into comas and then removing hydration and nutrition so the patients die of starvation and dehydration, in what is called terminal sedation.
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