Palliative care in Italy: progress and disparities —
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di Maurizio CalipariAccess to palliative care in Italy remains uneven, despite the dignity and comfort it provides to patients. While patients in…
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Assisted suicide? “Humanising Medicine is what is needed instead.” The opinion of Massimo Damini, Specialist in Palliative Care
di Giovanna Pasqualin Traversa“While requests for assisted suicide do exist, they are few in number. Based on my experience, providing effective palliative care…
Germany: assisted suicide legislation. Welskop-Deffaa (Caritas), “wanting to live does not require justification, regardless of age or illness”
Austria: Bishops reaffirm “no” to assisted suicide. “Serve life, not death!”
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USA: in hospitals, the utilitarian principle threatens the elderly and the disabled
di Maddalena MalteseOver the past few weeks President Trump evoked the spectre of a war against an invisible enemy, and while words…
