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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
Care that relieves pain and other symptoms and supports people with serious illness, rather than aiming to cure their condition.
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Care that relieves pain and other symptoms of serious illness and supports the patient rather than seeking to cure the illness.
Revise: Contrasting Religious Beliefs on EuthanasiaChristians may support hospices and palliative care, which relieve symptoms and offer practical, emotional and spiritual support. Their aim is to help a person live their remaining life with dignity, not deliberately cause death.
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Care that relieves pain and other distressing symptoms without aiming to cause death.
Revise: The Value of Life: Abortion, Euthanasia and SpeciesismCatholics support palliative care, which manages pain and distress without intending death. The principle of double effect can permit pain relief even if shortening life is a foreseeable side effect, provided death is not the aim or the means of relieving suffering. It is not permission to give a lethal dose with the intention of killing.
Care that relieves symptoms and suffering associated with serious illness, rather than aiming to cure the illness or end the person's life.
Care that relieves pain and other distressing symptoms, especially in serious or terminal illness.
Care intended to relieve suffering and improve quality of life for people with serious illnesses, rather than cure the illness.
Care intended to relieve pain and other distressing symptoms and improve quality of life, rather than cure an illness.
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