Originally Posted by Oceanbreeze

That's what I thought.

I also have seen that with children, but it wasn't always the case. I can remember when I was young, just getting the doctors to provide adequate post-op pain relief was a fight. In fact, I was routinely under medicated. I can't imagine what it would have been like had I been terminally ill as a youngster in the 70s.

We definitely have come a long way. At least, for palliative care for children. But, as you already noted, palliative care for adults has a ways to go yet.