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Concerns about finances, family conflicts, future disability, dependency, and existential concerns will not resolve with medication.
In particular, there is controversy on the issues of dehydration in sedation for existential suffering [ 24 ] . The increasing acceptance and use of "terminal sedation" [ 25 ] in end-of-life care makes it necessary to scrutinize guidelines, which may help to continuously consider and reconsider the needs and wishes of patients and surrogates, as well as intentions and concerns of caregivers.
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.
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."
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.
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