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[ 35 36 37 ] . Certainly also the cultural background determines attitudes and view points to the goals of care and in which situations of "intolerable suffering" sedation is ethically acceptable [ 38 ] . In several retrospective and prospective surveys the reported frequency of sedation due to intractable symptoms in different palliative care settings ranged from 7-52% with increasing incidence especially for "existential suffering" [ 39 40 41 ] . Diagnostic criteria and clinical preconditions for the consideration of sedation in patients with far advanced disease have been described by several authors [ 42 43 44 ] , but aims, targets, types of sedation and decision making remain conflicting issues.
However, there is much debate about where to draw the borderline between sedation for refractory symptoms that are of a mainly physical/somatic nature and for those psychological symptoms that are mainly due to existential suffering.
True, they tend to have the emotional autonomy of 8-year-olds, but they're less of a labor to "read" than ordinary mortals: It's their business--you might say their existential orientation--to communicate their thoughts and feelings in an engaging fashion every millisecond . I mention this because the first thing that struck me about the much-hyped satirical comedy EdTV , which purports to show the effect of TV cameras brought into the homes of real people, is that almost no one on-screen seems ever to have met a real (i.e.
He and his cinematographer, Roger Pratt, have loaded the screen with shadows--not the hard-edged ones of film noir but a sort of existential (English) smudginess.
Concerns about finances, family conflicts, future disability, dependency, and existential concerns will not resolve with medication.
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