This is referred to as assisted suicide, a physician providing an ill, yet competent person with medication to aid in committing suicide. ... Comfort care also suggests that doctors simply do what they can to make life happier for the terminally ill and their family any way they possibly can whether it is through kind words, bright smiles, or funny jokes; anything just to lighten the air and the shoulders of those being burdened by a great illness. ...

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