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Were there such protests as later surrounded the euthanasia programs for the retarded?
However, the technical possibilities of palliative care with concentration on quality of life also brought about a "diminished emphasis on the good death" [ 45 ] . Consequently, the increasing requests of patients "to die in sleep" by terminal sedation could be an comprehensible alternative to euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide and must be reflected in the discussion on the value of sedation in end-of-life care.
Once the possibility of voluntary euthanasia is recognized, the danger presents itself that terminal patients will encounter social and economic pressure to consent to an early and painless death.
According to the EAPC Ethics Task Force "terminal' or 'palliative' sedation in those imminently dying must be distinguished from euthanasia.
Emphasis is added that the balance between possible euthanasia and inadequate palliative care is achieved by titrating the dosage of sedatives so that one avoids over- or under medication to allow death to result from the underlying disease in a state of continuing unconsciousness [ 48 ] .