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Case Report #10—Euthanasia (Assisted Suicide) or Palliative Sedation

2018· book-chapter· en· W2883648570 on OpenAlexaff
Gilles Plourde

Bibliographic record

VenueProstate Cancer · 2018
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCannabis and Cannabinoid Research
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDignityPalliative careMedicineRight to diePsychiatryAssisted suicideDeath with dignityQuality of life (healthcare)PsychologyPsychotherapistNursingLawPolitical science

Abstract

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The end of life is a difficult moment for patients who are suffering both physically and mentally. Many are requesting euthanasia when they are suffering too much, but this is not easy to obtain, as there are many pros and cons within the medical community and the society regarding euthanasia. As a result, many dying patients will not receive euthanasia even though they strongly request it. Helping patients to die when they are suffering too much should be considered part of good care. Fortunately, we also have palliative care that helps patient manage pain until they die. Euthanasia and palliative care respects the principle of patient dignity, which does not depend on the patient’s usefulness to the society. Instead, human dignity is based on the inherent worth of each human; a value that must not be influenced by external factors. Being human confers a dignity and the right to choose to continue to live with pain or to die in peace; it is not control, but acceptance. It is important to provide people who suffer with the compassion and assistance they need in order to move them toward acceptance until the time of death. The last theme of this chapter discusses the role of cannabis as a good alternative for patients suffering from chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, cancer-associated pain, anorexia and cachexia syndrome, insomnia, depression, and anxiety. However, we recommend the medical-based cannabis for better quality, though the prescription should be performed on a case-by-case basis by a qualified physician.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.238
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0380.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.127
GPT teacher head0.401
Teacher spread0.274 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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