Palliative care is the care given t...

Palliative care is the care given to those who are in imminent danger of death. To 'palliate' is to be reduced the suffering of a dying character There is much debate today as to for what cause this should be done. The denomination "dying," properly understood, applies to a human frame whose death may reasonably be awaited to occur within, at mostly 48 hours. There is also, however, long debate about the meaning given to the word "imminent." The major factors spurring these debates are the understandings made by many about "quality of life," whether a certain kind of life is "worth living," and