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Some also require the applicant to be suffering "unbearable" physical or mental pain.
"Debbie wanted choice and control over her death should she consider her suffering unbearable," said Wootton.
The option to die is usually only available to patients suffering unbearable pain who can also make their wish to die expressly clear.
The law is being used as intended: to bring about a more peaceful death for dying patients who find their suffering unbearable.
The original bill required someone to have a terminal illness and to be suffering unbearable pain that could not be relieved through other measures before they could access assistance in ending their life.
It imposed a strict set of conditions: the patient must be suffering unbearable pain, their illness must be incurable, and the demand must be made in "full consciousness" by the patient.
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Some patients themselves had doubts about whether or not their suffering was unbearable or stated that their suffering was not unbearable all the time.
And how does she prove that her suffering is unbearable?
At times, especially on the oxygenation machine, his suffering seemed unbearable.
How do we respond when a patient's suffering breeds unbearable discomfort and unease within our own selves?
The physical and emotional suffering was unbearable.
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