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I think this is meant more as a protection to keep people from being used as lab rats. Imagine a drug company is developing a drug and gives it to a dying person without having done any prior testing and then discover that the drug not only doesn't work, but may cause other, possibly painful, side effects. Now this person is still dying, but now has to suffer even more by a treatment that doesn't work.
This explanation may seem a bit out there, but I have been in a similar situation. Three times in my life, I was given experimental chemotherapy treatments. Obviously, two of them failed I nearly died many times as a result of both. With one, it cause serious and painful permanent nerve damage to my lower legs and feet that's not likely to ever go away. The third time was successful and had relatively few complications.
That said, I think patients should have the option of being able to receive treatment if they're terminally ill as long as everything has been explained to them. I don't think doctors or the drug companies would be willing to go for it unless some liability waiver is signed first though.
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