Sentences with phrase «experiencing unbearable suffering»

In the Netherlands, doctors are permitted to assist individuals in dying where they are competent and experiencing unbearable suffering.

The patient only needs to be experiencing unbearable suffering without prospect of a cure.

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When you say that love is the most important thing, I hope your heart includes loving those women who have made the unthinkable, unbearable decision that spared an embryo from being born into a traumatic, awful experience... from a situation of pain and suffering... from an environment where people are incapable of loving the child or providing for that child's basic needs.

And even though Gawande acknowledges that legal euthanasia made the Dutch «slower than others to develop palliative care programs,» he supports «laws to provide these kinds of [lethal] prescriptions» to those experiencing «suffering at the end of life» that is «unavoidable and unbearable.»