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Likewise, the term pre-invasive cancer raises an existential question.
Though we could not make a clear differentiation between primary (when patients want to be sedated approaching the moment of death) and secondary sedation (when sedation results as a "side-effect" in otherwise refractory symptom control [ 46 ] , it must be clear to all, that the intention of sedation in the terminal and final phase is not a concealed form of euthanasia [ 47 ] . Under ethical aspects the requests for sedation to reduce consciousness to a state of unawareness need an individual and balanced approach, especially when the wish for sedation is not connected with the intolerability of physical or psychological distress This makes it necessary to discuss the problem of "terminal sedation" like other forms of therapeutic and existential support with patients and family members at an early stage in palliative care.
Concerns about finances, family conflicts, future disability, dependency, and existential concerns will not resolve with medication.
It's "a sort of Stephen King novel for highbrows" (David Gates, the New York Times Book Review ) that combines "existential bleakness" (David Ulin, Newsday ) and "breezy silliness" (Bill Kent, the Washington Post Book World ). The New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani dissents, calling Already Dead "simultaneously pretentious, sentimental, bubble-headed and gratuitously violent."
Those existential speculations don't derive from the screenplay's source, an archetypal but otherwise down-to-earth 1962 novel by James Jones (who also wrote From Here to Eternity ) about the American invasion of the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal.
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