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This 3 page paper provides an overview of a research article on end of life care, with a focus on pain management during the process of dying. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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decision-making, the effectiveness of pain management. These researchers recognized that the ineffectiveness of pain management at a time when medical and research knowledge abounds has led to initiatives, including
"death with dignity" legislation, that has resulted from the belief that continuing to live without adequate pain management is paramount to inhumane treatment. These researchers maintained that pain relief
during acute issues, chronic illness, as well as during dying and death, is an essential and compassionate human right. Advancements in medicine suggest that effective pain management should
be achievable, but that cultural, social, and political pressures, as well as myths and ignorance have negatively impacted the use of medication management. Though pain management is currently being
assessed in different disciplines, including ethics, the law, and through medical research, the lack of a reasonable response to pain management, especially in times of considerable strife, have led to
an inhumane response. It is not surprising, then, that communities in our country, as well as healthcare providers, have assessed the implications of behaviors and legislation that would result
in the choice of death over continued suffering with inadequate pain management. The authors cited Pope Benedict XVI, who in 2007 maintained that palliative care workers
and those who support effective pain management were praised for their capacity to "promote policies which create conditions where human beings care bear even incurable illnesses and death in a
dignified manner" (p. 221). Pain control and the use of medications during times of extreme illness or during dying and death must provide support for the physiological functions that
are a natural part of the progression towards death, not as a preventative intervention, but as a strategy for making death a dignified process. The ethical application of pain
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