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    Orthothanasia is the process of withdrawing treatment from a terminally ill patient who has no hope of recovery in order to allow a natural death and alleviate suffering. It involves providing palliative care to control pain and improve quality of life rather than prolonging death through futile treatment. The goal is to humanize the dying process and permit patients to live peacefully until their death.

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    Orthothanasia is the process of withdrawing treatment from a terminally ill patient who has no hope of recovery in order to allow a natural death and alleviate suffering. It involves providing palliative care to control pain and improve quality of life rather than prolonging death through futile treatment. The goal is to humanize the dying process and permit patients to live peacefully until their death.

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    Orthothanasia is the process of withdrawing treatment from a terminally ill patient who has no hope of recovery in order to allow a natural death and alleviate suffering. It involves providing palliative care to control pain and improve quality of life rather than prolonging death through futile treatment. The goal is to humanize the dying process and permit patients to live peacefully until their death.

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    ORTHOTHANASIA

    WHAT IS ORTHOTHANASIA

    • An act of withdrawing a supposedly useless intervention/treatment from a terminally-ill


    patient who has no more hope to reverse his condition.
    • A normal or natural manner of death and dying. Sometimes used to denote the deliberate
    stopping of artificial of heroic means of maintaining life.
    • It is the process of the humanization of death and alleviation of pain, but it does not
    abusively prolong death with the implementation of futile treatment which would cause
    more suffering to terminal patients.
    • Palliative care controls pain and improves quality of life. It does not aim to cure a disease
    or extend life as long as possible rather it aims to permit patients to live peacefully and
    comfortably

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