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  2. Palliative sedation - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative ...

  3. End-of-life care - Wikipedia

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    End-of-life care (EOLC) is health care provided in the time leading up to a person's death.End-of-life care can be provided in the hours, days, or months before a person dies and encompasses care and support for a person's mental and emotional needs, physical comfort, spiritual needs, and practical tasks.

  4. Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient - Wikipedia

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    The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was a care pathway in the United Kingdom (excluding Wales) covering palliative care options for patients in the final days or hours of life. It was developed to help doctors and nurses provide quality end-of-life care, to transfer quality end-of-life care from the hospice to hospital ...

  5. Terminal illness - Wikipedia

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    Completion of any significant goals, such as resolving past conflicts. [6] In the last hours of life, palliative sedation may be recommended by a doctor or requested by the patient to ease the symptoms of death until they die. Palliative sedation is not intended to prolong life or hasten death; it is merely meant to relieve symptoms. [63]

  6. A single cigarette slashes 20 minutes off your life ... - AOL

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    That means if someone smokes a pack of 20 cigarettes per day, “20 cigarettes at 20 minutes per cigarette works out to be almost seven hours of life lost per pack,” said Dr. Sarah Jackson, a ...

  7. TV documentary reconstructs final hours of Robin Williams' life

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    According to the Daily Mail, Shepherd says in the show that Robin "stuffed his collection of watches into a sock and took it to a friend for safekeeping" and that he "also spent his final 24 hours ...

  8. Reelz defends Eddie Van Halen episode of 'Autopsy: The Last ...

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    The death of rocker Eddie Van Halen, who died of cancer in October 2020, is the subject of Sunday's episode of Autopsy: The Last Hours of... on Reelz, and his son, Wolfgang Van Halen, and his ex ...

  9. Three Hours To Change Your Life - images.huffingtonpost.com

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    “Three Hours To Change Your Life” an excerpt of the book Your Best Year Yet! by Jinny S. Ditzler This document is a 35-page excerpt, including the Welcome chapter of the book and Part 1: The Principles of Best Year Yet – three hours to change your life First published by HarperCollins in 1994 and by Warner Books in 1998