Palliation in a sentence as a noun

But we over invest in those compared to the alternatives of prevention and palliation.

It sounds like they did do that though:> He had spoken with her family innumerable times explaining her dismal prognosis, the virtues of palliation and hospice care, and the harms of overtreatment.

Palliation definitions

noun

easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause

noun

to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious

See also: extenuation mitigation