A Review of Terman's “Timely dying in dementia: Use patients' judgments and broaden the concept of suffering”

Responses to Open Peer Commentaries about “Timely dying in dementia: use patients' judgments and broaden the concept of suffering” and “Can an effective end‐of‐life intervention for advanced dementia be viewed as moral?”

“…We disagree with the semantic argument that both Cantor 3 and Menzel 4 stated, paraphrased as: unacceptable deterioration may not cause suffering, so concentrating on only suffering misses much of what many people want to avoid in dementia. Yet we are willing to change our position if Cantor or Menzel presented examples of clinical conditions that cause "unacceptable deterioration" but do not cause suffering.…”