Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine
Open Access

Opinion Article

Opponents and Proponents Views Regarding Palliative Sedation at End of Life

¹Arab Medical Center, Hashemite University, Amman, Jordan

²Consultant of Nursing, The Hashemite University, Jordan

*Corresponding Author:

Majd abdelmajeed awadi
MSN, RN, Clinical Nurse Specialist
Arab Medical Center, Hashemite University, Amman, Jordan
Tel: 00962789468095
E-mail: maawadi09@yahoo.com

Received date: January 04, 2016; Accepted date: January 06, 2016; Published date: January 11, 2016

Citation: Awadi MA (2016) Opponents and Proponents Views Regarding Palliative Sedation at End of Life. J Palliat Care Med 6:242. doi:10.4172/2165-7386.1000242

Copyright: © 2016 Awadi MA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Palliative sedation is sedating a patient to the point of unconsciousness to relieve one or more symptoms, when all other possible measurements have failure. Palliative sedation is charged with controversy since developed. The purpose of this position statement paper is to support and discussing opponents and proponents' views comprehensively around palliative sedation in terminally ill patients. The most important dispute was if palliative sedation hastens death or not, if it can be used as physician-assisted suicide, if it legalized euthanasia and (or) if it violate patient's autonomy. The current authors are supporting palliative sedation with advanced incurable patients in order to alleviate patients suffering, palliative sedation offer to terminally ill patients' comfortable experience at end of life and allow them to die in peace. Palliative sedation should be encouraged to get health care facilities and legal support.

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