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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.
In our study the shorter survival time after administration of sedation in patients who had made an request for sedation might be due to the fact that in those patients the medical indications and preconditions were considered more intensively while the underlying disease progressed.
The usual speculation in this area is that the presence of ammonia and silicon, rather than water and carbon, might be preconditions for life on other planets.