Palliative sedation may still be difficult for some in the medical community to use, but patient-centered medicine requires that patients' wishes for this option be honored when alternative measures do not relieve their suffering.
Many of Britain's brightest pupils from the class of 2002, confused and disappointed by their A-level results, may wish that option had been available to them, too.
It's tempting to view every straightaway as an Indy 500 fantasy, so if you're planning to register an Atom for street use you'll wish the options sheet included a spare driver's license.
This situation is typical of many health topics, where there is imperfect yet evolving research evidence, and a variety of interested and invested stakeholders who develop, promote and/or enact specific policies or practices, and who may or may not wish these options to be informed by "evidence" [ 23].
In doing so these organisations are representing the silent voice of women who were satisfied with their obstetric-led care and those who may wish to choose this option in the future.
If the above isn't enough, you may wish to use this option if you have it.
[Editor's note: Maynard who wrote a first-person story for CNN, says, "After months of research, my family and I reached a heartbreaking conclusion: There is no treatment that would save my life, and the recommended treatments would have destroyed the time I had left.] Many brain cancer patients I work with wish they had this option in Connecticut and so do their family members.
I wish MacBooks came with this option.
As such we consider basically the answers of individuals on the "Don't know/Don't wish to answer" option of the questionnaire.
It consists of closed-ended questions, most of which use a 5-point satisfaction scale (very satisfied, satisfied, neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, dissatisfied, very dissatisfied) accompanied by a "Don't know/Don't wish to answer" option.
