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===Palliative care===
Palliative care specialists state that many requests for euthanasia arise from fear of physical or psychological distress in the patient's last days, and that widespread and equitable availability of specialist palliative care services will reduce requests for euthanasia. Nitschke is dismissive of this argument. "We have too many people who have the best palliative care in the world and they still want to know that they can put an end to things," he said.<ref name="irish">{{cite web |url=http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2010/03/does_the_freedom_to_die_enhanc.html |title=Does the freedom to die enhance lives? |work=Irish Medical Times |access-date=30 March 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218020301/http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2010/03/does_the_freedom_to_die_enhanc.html |archive-date=18 February 2013 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref> "By and large, palliative care have done pretty well out of the argument over the euthanasia issue, because they are the ones that have argued that they just need better funding and then no one will ever want to die – that's a lie."