Terminally ill patients to be given magic mushroom compound psilocybin to 'ease their fear of death'
Magic mushroom compound 'psilocybin' will be given to palliative care patients in Melbourne as part of a revolutionary trial at St Vincent's Hospital in Australia
A Melbourne hospital has caused a stir on social media after a controversial medical trial was announced in which dying patients will be given magic mushrooms in order to reduce their anxiety.
Terminally ill patients at St. Vincent's Hospital will be offered a single dose of psilocybin in the form a capsule to ease their fear of dying in a first-of-its-kind treatment. According to clinicians, state and federal authorities took more than a year to give the green light for the trial, Daily Mail reports.
