Pro-euthanasia doctors are twisting the meaning of ‘palliative care’

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April 21, 2018 (American Life League) – Merriam-Webster defines the word palliate as a transitive verb that means "to reduce the violence of (a disease); also: to ease (symptoms) without curing the underlying disease." In other words, to palliate means to make a patient comfortable while treating his disease.

This definition should translate into actions being taken to relieve a patient's pain and suffering while doctors and others involved in his treatment work to make him better, or at least comfortable.

Never should pain-relieving treatment – palliative care – be designed to ease the patient into death. This should not happen even in hospice.