Difficult decisions: end of life care or assisted suicide?
Ilora Finlay
Cardiff University, UK
There has been much debate about assisted suicide as a therapeutic option. At the same time the Government strategy has been to invest in palliative care developments with a view to improving end of life care.
The presentation will address:
- How a change in the law might impact on clinical care
- The main arguments deployed in the recent Parliamentary debate
- How treatment cessation decision differ from euthanasia
- The nature of double effect as a concept in oncology.
