Dr. Feargal Twomey:

Individuals who are close to the end of their lives are what I refer to as suffering from a "terminal illness". That is when somebody is within days or hours of their death. In the public domain, terminal illness is what I would call an incurable illness that is not going to go away. If someone is very close to the end of his or her life, as is true of a number of patients whose care I am currently involved with, and is distressed and in a lot of pain, we are able to manage that by controlling symptoms, pain, anxiety and-----