Existential suffering as an indication for palliative sedation: Identifying and addressing challenges

Affiliations

• ¹ Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
• ² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
• ³ Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Palliative Care, Rehabilitation, and Integrative Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
• ⁵ Ethics Committee, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁶ Departments of Medicine and Philosophy and the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.