Families more likely than patients to express need for assisted suicide says carer

Families more likely than patients to express need for assisted suicide says carer A photo illustration shows tools used in euthanasia. Photo: OSV News/Norbert Fellechner, www.imago via Reuters

Family members of patients receiving palliative care are more likely to express a view that it would be better if the patient were no longer alive than patients themselves, according to an experienced palliative carer. Dr Faith Cranfield can count “on one hand” the number of people she has worked with in 10 years as…

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