Meaning of terminal sedation | Babel Free
Definitions
The act of drugging a dying patient into a coma and withholding food and water until they die.
Examples
“[The physician] Timothy Quill objects to the hypocrisy of outlawing physician-assisted suicide while permitting the practice of physicians drugging pain-wracked dying patients into comas and then removing hydration and nutrition so the patients die⟳ of starvation and dehydration, in what is called terminal sedation.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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