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April 13, 2021 You are here: Home / Policy / Health / Palliative care: how understanding terminal pain and suffering guarantees the dignity of human rights Palliative care: how understanding terminal pain and suffering guarantees the dignity of human rights (Credit: Unsplash) This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Ms. Isabella Arantes Tobbin and Naiany Olivotto Martins, two second year medical students at Universidade Paranaense (UNIPAR) – Brazil. They are affiliated to the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA), cordial partner of The S...

Courtesy of Dougherty / Keystone Crossroads The news that Pennsylvania had screwed up the process for putting a constitutional amendment before voters that would allow victims of decades-old sexual abuse to sue hit Jay Sefton hard. He had let himself hope that things were finally about to change. “[It] was a real dark wave that came over,” said Sefton, now a therapist in Massachusetts, who says he was abused by a priest in Havertown in 1985. When the Pennsylvania Department of State failed to advertise the proposed constitutional amendment that had been passed by the legislature, i...

WHYY By Shaun Dougherty lobbying for changes to the statute of limitations in Harrisburg in 2019. (Courtesy of Dougherty) The news that Pennsylvania had screwed up the process for putting a constitutional amendment before voters that would allow victims of decades-old sexual abuse to sue hit Jay Sefton hard. He had let himself hope that things were finally about to change. “[It] was a real dark wave that came over,” said Sefton, now a therapist in Massachusetts, who says he was abused by a priest in Havertown in 1985. When the Pennsylvania Department of State failed to advertise the propo...