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Samuels, Alec. "Complicity in Suicide." Journal of Criminal Law 69, no. 6 (2005): 535–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1350/jcla.2005.69.6.535.

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This article addresses the extent to which, if at all, a person may lawfully ‘help’ another person, for example a terminally ill spouse, to take his own life or submit to euthanasia. It considers what intent is required to be proved for a crime and the situation where the intent is mercy. In addition, it looks at the position of a survivor of a suicide pact and whether there is a human right to die. Other questions raised are: How near to voluntary euthanasia is English law now? Is an advance decision ‘no treatment if I am terminally ill’ legally valid? What is the legal duty of the doctor tow

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Schofferman, Jerome. "CARE OF THE TERMINALLY ILL PERSON WITH AIDS." International Ophthalmology Clinics 29, no. 2 (1989): 127–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004397-198902920-00011.

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Flaherty, Joseph H. "Urinary incontinence and the terminally ill older person." Clinics in Geriatric Medicine 20, no. 3 (2004): 467–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cger.2004.04.002.

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Picardo, Resty L., and Evelyn G. Base. "Perceptions on illness among terminally ill clients." University of the Visayas - Journal of Research 7, no. 1 (2013): 171–82. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1681035.

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The study utilized a correlational design. It was conducted in the Hemodialysis Center and Cancer Center of Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center. A total of 40 terminally ill clients were the respondents of the study selected through a purposive sampling. The data from a paper and pen questionnaire were statistically treated using the simple percentage, chi-square, and Cramer’s V. The demographic profile and perceptions of terminally ill clients towards their illness were correlated. Generally the patients have positive perception about their illness which implies that despite the termi

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Baugher, Robert J., Candice Burger, Roberta Smith, and Kenneth Wallston. "A Comparison of Terminally Ill Persons at Various Time Periods to Death." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 20, no. 2 (1990): 103–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/6aw2-hq7n-3qch-4908.

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A cross-sectional comparison was made of the responses of 1,110 terminally ill persons with cancer at varying time periods prior to death. In addition, a longitudinal analysis on a subgroup of this sample was conducted for self-reported mood changes and social interaction changes as death approached. Two theories, Disengagement and Objective Self-Awareness, which suggest that people nearing death would increase in their desire to separate from others, were not supported. In general, there were few differences in the responses of persons further from, or closer to, death. The mention of religio

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Lee, Haeyoung, and Seung-Hye Choi. "Factors Associated with Quality of Dying and Death in Korean Intensive Care Units: Perceptions of Nurses." Healthcare 9, no. 1 (2021): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9010040.

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The objective of this study was to investigate the factors affecting the quality of dying and death among terminally ill patients in an intensive care unit in Korea using a cross-sectional, online survey. A total of 300 nurses in the intensive care unit who had cared for a terminally ill patient for at least 48 h prior to death in the past six months were chosen to participate. The person-centered critical care nursing (PCCN) score and quality of dying and death (QODD) had a positive correlation. The QODD score increased when the consultation was conducted between the terminally ill patients a

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Ryan, Christopher James. "Velcro on the Slippery Slope: The Role of Psychiatry in Active Voluntary Euthanasia." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 29, no. 4 (1995): 580–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679509064970.

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Objective: The aim of the paper is to determine the role that psychiatrists should play in legislation that establishes a right to active voluntary euthanasia (AVE). Method: One version of the “slippery slope” argument, usually invoked against the legalisation of AVE, is recast as an argument for the introduction of strong safeguards in any future AVE legislation. The literature surrounding the prevalence of psychiatric illnesses in the terminally ill, physicians' ability to identify such illnesses and the aetiology of suicide in the terminally ill is examined. Results: The strength of the sli

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Grochowska, Aneta, Halina Sopel, Barbara Kubik, Kazimiera Moździerz, and Urszula Romanowska. "Knowledge and attitudes of students towards individuals in terminal condition." Pielegniarstwo XXI wieku / Nursing in the 21st Century 14, no. 53 (2015): 15–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.12923/p21w-2015-4/43.

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Introduction. One of the social processes currently taking place in European countries is a growing number of the elderly and chronically ill. The problem of increasing life expectancy is a new biological and social phenomenon. Despite advances in medical sciences and development of technology in the 21st century, death is a necessity inscribed in the future of every man since birth. Aim. Assessment of knowledge and attitudes as regards individuals in terminal condition. Material and methods. The research was conducted at State Higher Vocational School in Tarnow among the group of 284 students

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Spencer, Judith. "Caring for a terminally ill person with pain, at home." Cancer Nursing 14, no. 1 (1991): 55???58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00002820-199102000-00009.

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Menzfeld, Mira. "Silent Questions: (Not) Talking about Dying in the Pearl River Delta." Medicine Anthropology Theory 9, no. 2 (2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.17157/mat.9.2.5536.

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This Field Notes contribution describes the difficulty of confronting the topic of dying in conversations with terminally ill persons in the Pearl River Delta region in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and how the ethnographer responded to this difficulty in a way she did not expect. While there is probably no ideal conversation starter for this subject anywhere in the world, bringing up the topic of approaching death is particularly challenging in China. First, it is considered impolite and harmful to communicate to a person directly that she is dying. Second, a terminal diagnosis is not

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Laporte, Pauline, Typhaine Juvet, Jean-François Desbiens, Diane Tapp, Jérôme Pasquier, and Marc-Antoine Bornet. "Factors affecting attitudes towards caring for terminally ill patients among nursing students in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study." BMJ Open 10, no. 9 (2020): e037553. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037553.

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ObjectivesPositive attitudes towards end-of-life care are essential among nursing students to adequately support terminally ill patients and enable students to feel confident about providing end-of-life care. This study aimed to determine nursing students’ attitudes towards caring for terminally ill patients, as well as the associations between these attitudes and year of study, exposure to terminally ill people, self-perceived nursing skills and subjective impact of instruction.DesignCross-sectional study.SettingA health sciences school in Switzerland.ParticipantsAll preparatory students, fir

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Wiseso, W., W. Fongkaew, N. Pinyokham, and J. Spiers. "Caring for Terminally Ill Cancer Persons." International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare 14 (December 2016): S41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.xeb.0000511691.01226.8e.

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Pace, James C., and Janice L. Stables. "Correlates of spiritual well-being in terminally ill persons with AIDS and terminally ill persons with cancer." Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care 8, no. 6 (1997): 31–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1055-3290(97)80056-8.

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COHEN, S. TZIPORAH, and SUSAN BLOCK. "Issues in psychotherapy with terminally ill patients." Palliative and Supportive Care 2, no. 2 (2004): 181–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478951504040246.

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Psychotherapy with the terminally ill poses special challenges for clinicians and in return offers unique rewards. As a time limited therapy, acceptance, rather than change is a primary goal; yet, patients can be strongly motivated to change. Patients may need to struggle with how to disengage while also maintaining connection. Unique transference and countertransference issues arise. The psychological tasks of dying include grieving, saying goodbye, constructing a meaningful context to one's life, and letting go. The therapist can serve as a companion and guide to the dying person as she or h

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Saleh, Fatima, and Catherine S. O’Neill. "The experiences of caregivers providing home care for terminally ill family members at the end of life: A phenomenological study in Bahrain." Clinical Nursing Studies 6, no. 3 (2018): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/cns.v6n3p57.

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Objective: The aim of the study was to explore the lived experience of caregivers providing home care for terminally ill family members, with the objectives of describing their experiences of caring for relatives who are terminally ill with cancer and the needs of home caregiving in Bahrain.Methods: The study adopted a Heideggerian, hermeneutic phenomenological design, with a purposive sample of eight family caregivers. Data was generated through one to one, in-depth interviews and analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.Results: Three main themes emerged from the data: (1) the

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Coy, Jackson. "Conceptualizing the notions of human-being and human-person in terminal discharge." Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 15, no. 3 (2024): 7–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.62865/bjbio.v15i3.94.

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Terminal discharge or discharging terminally ill patients from hospitals in Tanzania as any other end-of-life care decision does not go without moral dilemma. Although the resolutions of end-of-life care decisions in hospitals in Tanzania focus much on material order rather than moral order, this paper shows the moral imperative of terminal discharge. The paper picks one of the controversial bioethical moral issues that are always raised in end-of-life decisions; ‘the distinction between human beings and human-person’ and analyzes it through linguistic categories of Kiswahili language. From th

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Wilson, Donna M., and Boris Woytowich. "What Proportion of Terminally Ill and Dying People Require Specialist Palliative Care Services?" International Journal of Palliative Care 2014 (September 11, 2014): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/529681.

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Currently, around 55 million people die each year worldwide. That number is expected to increase rapidly with accelerating population aging. Despite growth in the number of palliative care specialists and specialist services in most countries, the prospect of an increasing number of terminally ill and dying persons is daunting. This paper attempts to answer the question: what proportion of terminally ill and dying persons require specialist palliative care services? To address this question and highlight which persons require specialist palliative care, the current state of access to specialis

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Godawa, Grzegorz. "Wsparcie psychopedagogiczne rodziny dziecka w cierpieniu wszechogarniającym realizowane w warunkach hospicyjnych." Analecta Cracoviensia 43 (December 28, 2011): 43–58. https://doi.org/10.15633/acr.4303.

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The comprehensive suffering starts when the pain paralyzes not only the body but also particular forms of human activity. The suffering affects the ill person as well as their environment. It is especially severe for a family with a terminally ill child. Hence, the family often expects help from professionals. Psychopedagogical support of the ill child and its family implemented in a hospice environment embraces several spheres of the family functioning, e.g. the activity aimed at reformulation of the family goals, a response to the healthy siblings’ needs, strengthening of marital bonds and s

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Fleck, Leonard M. "Just Caring: Health Care Rationing, Terminal Illness, and the Medically Least Well off." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 39, no. 2 (2011): 156–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2011.00585.x.

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What does it mean to be a “just” and “caring” society in meeting the health care needs of the terminally ill when we have only limited resources to meet virtually unlimited health care needs? This is the question that will be the focus of this essay. Another way of asking our question would be the following: Relative to all the other health care needs in our society, especially the need for lifesaving or life-prolonging health care, how high a priority ought the health care needs of persons who are terminally ill have? Should any of the health care needs of the terminally ill be assigned very

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Smith, J. L. "Why do physicians overestimate life expectancy of a person who is terminally ill?" Western Journal of Medicine 172, no. 5 (2000): 313–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ewjm.172.5.313.

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Ellerton, Mary-Lou, and Barbara Downe-Wamboldt. "The Concerns of Hospice Patients and the Role of Hospice Volunteers." Journal of Palliative Care 3, no. 1 (1987): 16–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/082585978700300104.

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The purpose of the study was to identify the concerns of hospitalized terminally ill patients, newly enrolled in a volunteer hospice program and to determine staff nurses’, and volunteers’ perceptions of the hospice volunteer role. The degree to which patients felt lonely, anxious, depressed, afraid of pain, and understood was determined using quantitative measures. Nurses’ and hospice volunteers’ perceptions of the volunteer role were assessed through a self-report questionnaire. The results indicated that loneliness and depression are major concerns among terminally ill patients. Anxiety and

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Retherford, Robin. "An Unforgettable Client." Home Health Care Management & Practice 23, no. 5 (2011): 379–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1084822311413557.

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It can be easy to work with patients when they have a positive prognosis, but what happens when a person becomes terminally ill and has not yet come to terms with it? This story addresses both the challenge and value of honesty in conversations between health care workers and their clients when confronted with difficult questions surrounding the issue of death. It is told from a nursing student’s point of view.

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Horne, Gillian, Sheila Payne, and Jane Seymour. "Do patients with lung cancer recall physician-initiated discussions about planning for end-of-life care following disclosure of a terminal prognosis?" BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 9, no. 2 (2016): 197–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2015-001015.

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BackgroundCommunicating with patients about their prognosis and goals of care, including offering opportunities to engage in advance care planning (ACP) is widely recognised as best practice. Little is known about terminally ill patients’ perceptions of communication and ACP practice following disclosure of their terminal prognosis.ObjectivesTo examine whether terminally ill patients with lung cancer and their relatives recall conversations with disclosing physicians, about their concerns, goals of care or any offers to engage in ACP.MethodsQualitative study using semistructured interviews wit

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Bashyam, Paul, Ching Sian Yap, XiangYi Chen, and Zhi Zheng Yeo. "Facing death alone: An exploration of terminally ill individuals living alone in palliative care." Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 53, no. 9 (2024): 588–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.2023426.

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Home palliative care clinicians provide end-of-life care for patients from diverse social and economic backgrounds. They include patients who live alone—a single-person household.1 Auon et al. found that 7–12% of patients under palliative care lived alone for more than a year.3 Demographic trends increasingly highlight this group to be a growing population with pressing concerns (e.g. the number of single-person households in Singapore has almost doubled between 2012 and 2022).2 With the greying population, the trend of patients living alone is expected to grow.

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Boycheva, Tsvetka, and Mariya Dimitrova. "PROBLEMS OF FAMILIES WITH TERMINALLY ILL." Knowledge International Journal 28, no. 2 (2018): 603–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.35120/kij2802603b.

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In recent decades, there has been a growing public interest in palliative care. This is dictated by the ever increasing number of people who need it. With advances in medical science and the development of new technologies, life expectancy has increased, but at the same time, the number of years spent in illness and suffering has increased. Still, death is not defeated, but pain and suffering can be relieved, and the quality of life of the terminally ill and their families can be improved. Palliative care is overwhelming. They target the patient and his family. They meet the psychic, social, s

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Jack Ayres, R. "Current Controversies in Prehospital Resuscitation of the Terminally Ill Patient." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 5, no. 1 (1990): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00026522.

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Prehospital health-care providers regularly are called upon to assist terminally ill patients in residential or institutional, non-hospital settings such as nursing homes or hospices. Among the most crucial issues regarding such patients is whether they should be resuscitated. With alarming frequency, EMS providers are encountering vigorous and sometimes violent refusals of examination, treatment, and/or transportation from the terminally ill patient, members of the patient's family, or third persons ostensibly acting on the patient's behalf. Today, the prehospital emergency health-care provid

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Chesné Albertus. "The National Policy Framework and Strategy on Palliative Care 2017‒2022: What’s in it for Terminally Ill Inmates in South Africa?" Obiter 41, no. 4 (2021): 671–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/obiter.v41i4.10474.

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In South Africa many people suffer from serious, incurable health conditions that may render them incapacitated and/or terminally ill. Such persons may inevitably require holistic care such as palliative care. The adoption in 2017 of the National Policy Framework and Strategy on Palliative Care 2017‒2022 (NPFSPC) in line with the Health Assembly Resolution 67.19 “Strengthening of Palliative Care as a Component of Comprehensive Care Throughout the Life Course” thus marked a significant milestone for advocates of palliative care, as well as for persons affected by terminal illness. Despite this

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Warth, Marco, Jens Kessler, Josien van Kampen, Beate Ditzen, and Hubert J. Bardenheuer. "‘Song of Life’: music therapy in terminally ill patients with cancer." BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 8, no. 2 (2018): 167–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2017-001475.

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ObjectivesMusic therapy (MT) holds a promising potential to meet emotional and existential needs in palliative care patients. The aim of the present pilot study was to assess the feasibility, acceptance and potential effectiveness of a novel MT intervention to improve life closure and spiritual well-being of terminally ill patients with cancer receiving palliative care.MethodsThe ‘Song of Life’ (SOL) intervention was provided on two consecutive sessions containing a biographical interview and a live performance of a song with high biographical relevance to the patient in a lullaby style. Pre-t

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Piers, Ruth D., Ineke J. van Eechoud, Sigrid Van Camp, et al. "Advance Care Planning in terminally ill and frail older persons." Patient Education and Counseling 90, no. 3 (2013): 323–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2011.07.008.

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Mramor, Karla M. "Music Therapy with Persons who are Indigent and Terminally Ill." Journal of Palliative Care 17, no. 3 (2001): 182–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/082585970101700311.

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This paper addresses the music therapy process specific to one subgroup of the general population identified as having terminal illness. This subgroup includes individuals who are impoverished, homeless, and do not have someone to provide them with care at the end of life. Based upon her clinical work at Malachi House, the author identified three distinct phases of the music therapy process with these individuals: engagement, relationship building, and actively dying. The progress of 50 residents through the therapy process was documented over a three-year period, as was the musical and nonmus

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Dobbs, Debra, Hongdao Meng, Jessica Yauk, Harleah Buck, and William Haley. "AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM IN ASSISTED LIVING TO INCREASE STAFF SELF-EFFICACY IN PROVISION OF DEMENTIA PALLIATIVE CARE." Innovation in Aging 7, Supplement_1 (2023): 337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.1122.

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Abstract Advance care planning among persons with dementia, their family members and staff in assisted living (AL) communities can facilitate meeting care preferences. In a recent NIH Stage 1a feasibility cluster randomized trial in AL communities (N=118 residents with dementia, 23 staff; k=10 ALs). The Palliative Care Education in Assisted Living for Dementia Care Providers (PCEAL-DCP) intervention showed an increase in documentation of ACP discussions (e.g., completion of advance directives, having goals of care discussions with family) in the treatment group from 12% to 51% compared to cont

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Makwana, Gautam. "THE OLD AGE AND DEATH – THE DEEPEST CRITICAL THOUGHT." VIDYA - A JOURNAL OF GUJARAT UNIVERSITY 2, no. 2 (2023): 160–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.47413/vidya.v2i2.231.

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The elderly were shielded by the depersonalization of medicine brought on by individualism and competitiveness. As they get closer to the end of their lives, older patients frequently need to make peace with themselves and acknowledge their accomplishments and shortcomings. Medical professionals should therefore be considerate while speaking with patients and providing them with information. The terror of the elderly is not death itself, but rather their current state of abandonment. Death denial and terror are nonsensical because life is only given with the condition that it will end one day.

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Dopelt, Keren, Dganit Cohen, Einat Amar-Krispel, Nadav Davidovitch, and Paul Barach. "Facing Death: Attitudes toward Physician-Assisted End of Life among Physicians Working at a Tertiary-Care-Hospital in Israel." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 12 (2021): 6396. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126396.

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The demand for medical assistance in dying remains high and controversial with a large knowledge gap to support optimal patient care. The study aimed to explore physicians’ attitudes regarding euthanasia and examine the factors that related to these attitudes. We surveyed 135 physicians working at a tertiary-care hospital in Israel. The questionnaire was comprised of demographic and background information, DNR procedure information, encounters with terminally ill patients, familiarity with the law regarding end-of-life questions, and Attitudes toward Euthanasia. About 61% agreed that a person

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Zhu, Lijun, and Huajun Lin. "Impact of Spiritual Care Nursing Based on the “Four-full Framework” on Liver Cancer Patients." Journal of Clinical and Nursing Research 9, no. 6 (2025): 214–21. https://doi.org/10.26689/jcnr.v9i6.10951.

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Objective: To explore the impact of spiritual care nursing based on the “Four-full Framework” (whole-person, whole-process, whole-department, whole-society) on the spiritual status, psychological distress, and quality of life of liver cancer patients. Methods: A total of 120 terminally ill liver cancer patients admitted to the hospital from January 2022 to December 2023 were divided into a control group (60 cases, receiving routine nursing) and an observation group (60 cases, receiving routine nursing plus spiritual care nursing based on the four-full framework) according to their admission or

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Guevin, Benedict M. "What To Do When the Battery Runs Out." Ethics & Medics 41, no. 2 (2016): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/em20164122.

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I recently published two articles on pacemakers. My focus in both articles was on the moral permissibility of deactivating the pacemaker at the end of life. But an attentive reader sent me an email with the gentle reminder that I failed to discuss in either article whether it is ethical to allow the battery that powers the pacemaker to run out when a person has dementia or Alzheimer’s disease or is terminally ill. With people living longer, and with ever-increasing uses of pacemakers, what to do in such cases has become a growing and confusing issue.

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Johnson, David Kyle. "More on the Relevance of Personhood and Mindedness: The Euthanasia Debate." Socio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry 5, no. 1 (2023): 30–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2023.vol5.no1.02.

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In my first paper for SHERM, I argued that “fetus personhood” is irrelevant to the abortion debate. In this paper, I will argue that personhood is irrelevant to the euthanasia debate as well. Even though a terminally ill patient is a person, ending their life can still be moral. Because personhood (and mindedness) is only instrumentally valuable as means to attaining the good life, if a terminal illness has now made that impossible, it is permissible (when both the doctor and patient agree) for the doctor to help the patient end their life. Thus, euthanasia should be legal.

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Zlatin, Debbie Messer. "Life Themes: A Method to Understand Terminal Illness." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 31, no. 3 (1995): 189–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/e4ba-ml04-e2bk-7yje.

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As health care costs in general soar, the high cost of terminal care is questioned. Yet little is known about what kinds of medical care terminally ill persons, themselves, want. To explore the patient's view, I conducted a qualitative study of eight patients with incurable cancer to answer the question, “How do terminally ill persons understand their illnesses and treatments?” Analysis of interview transcripts indicated that study participants created illness-understandings within the context of their daily life experiences via life themes. Since life themes integrate and give meaning to illn

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Anderson, Hebert. "After the Diagnosis: An Operational Theology for the Terminally Ill." Journal of Pastoral Care 43, no. 2 (1989): 141–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002234098904300207.

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Concludes from clinical vignettes that seriously ill persons utilize images drawn from personal, idiosyncratic operational theologies as much as they do from official religious teachings. Illustrates this thesis by analyzing societal images of death and by exploring notions of waiting activities, remembering gratefully, hoping realistically, and trusting courageously.

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Savitch, Stephanie, Robin Gilmore, and Denetta L. Dowler. "An Investigation of the Psychological and Psychosocial Challenges Faced by Post-Transplant Organ Recipients." Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling 34, no. 3 (2003): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0047-2220.34.3.3.

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Organ transplantation offers to some terminally ill people the opportunity to have their lives extended with the gift of an organ(s). Following transplantation, the organ recipient is given extensive medical care, but the psychological, psychosocial, and occupational needs of the person are rarely addressed. This study identified and defined these emotional and occupational challenges and presents the current and prospective role of the Rehabilitation Counselor. Fifty-four organ transplant recipients completed a two-page questionnaire covering the post-transplant experience. Analysis of the re

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Templer, Donald I., Hiroko Arikawa, and Patrick C. Gariety. "Psychotropic Drugs in Terminally Ill Patients: A Review of the Clinical and Research Literature." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 49, no. 3 (2004): 249–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/9v5j-fg82-qrrn-uf87.

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The principal psychopharmacological drugs used with terminally ill persons were briefly reviewed, and special consideration for various terminal illnesses were discussed. Sections on the analgesic effects of psychotropic drugs, the psychotropic properties of opioids, the beneficial effects of marijuana, and the use of LSD in terminal cancer patients are included.

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Raudonis, Barbara M., and Jane Marie Kirschling. "Family Caregivers’ Perspectives on Hospice Nursing Care." Journal of Palliative Care 12, no. 2 (1996): 14–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/082585979601200204.

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In hospice nursing, dying persons and their families are the unit of care and the focus of nursing interventions which are provided within the context of interdisciplinary care. The key component of hospice nursing is the interaction between the nurse, the terminally ill person, and the family. This naturalistic study was designed to describe the family caregiver's relationships between the hospice patient, the nurse, and themselves. The intent was to determine if family caregivers would develop empathic relationships with the hospice nurses. Nine bereaved family caregivers participated in the

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Achille, Marie A., and James R. P. Ogloff. "Attitudes Toward and Desire for Assisted Suicide among Persons with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 48, no. 1 (2004): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/g5ta-9kv0-mt3g-rwm0.

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This study aimed at investigating attitudes toward assisted suicide among individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and the differences in health status (illness severity and functional disability) and psychosocial adjustment (depression, perceived stress, social support, and coping) between those in favor of and those against assisted suicide. This study also aimed at describing the characteristics of terminally-ill individuals who acknowledge contemplating assisted suicide. Forty-four individuals diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis were surveyed about their attitudes and the c

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Shaw, Julia. "Recent Developments in the Reform of English Law on Assisted Suicide." European Journal of Health Law 16, no. 4 (2009): 333–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/092902709x12506817652810.

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AbstractAssisted suicide remains a deeply contested issue in the UK. Recently three Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bills were introduced in a three year period, all of which failed. Despite the provision of clear and precise safeguards, at each reading the House of Lords fixed largely on the traditional slippery slope and sanctity of life positions; a disproportionate reliance on theological determinism in particular prevented informed rational debate. People are living longer often with chronic, incurable diseases and palliative care is frequently of poor quality or even unavailable in

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Pavlenko, Tetіana A., Tetіana Ye Dunaieva, and Marina Yu Valuiska. "PROSPECTS OF EUTHANASIA LEGAL REGULATION IN UKRAINE." Wiadomości Lekarskie 73, no. 10 (2020): 2289–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.36740/wlek202010135.

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The aim of this article is to explore the ways of euthanasia regulation and to propose the most effective one. Materials and methods: The authors of the article used the methods of analysis and synthesis, a comparative legal method. The scientific literature is evaluated and analyzed along with the experience of European countries, data of Ukrainian and international organizations and the results of scientific researches. Conclusions: the understanding of euthanasia should be reviewed in terms of the possibility in exceptional cases of its executing for terminally ill person. This is an inhere

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Marquis, Serge. "Death of the Nursed: Burnout of the Provider." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 27, no. 1 (1993): 17–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/by2x-0pm4-g47b-cr6t.

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Burnout among caregivers of the terminally ill is related to the various ways in which people meet their death. Clinical experience and field studies reveal that every form of dying and death places its own distinctive emotional burden on the caregiver. For example, in the wake of a swift and violent death, an emergency room nurse may believe that he or she was not really trusted by the supervisors and not allowed to exercise his or her own professional judgment. The lack of opportunity to establish a last bond with the dying person can generate intense frustration. By contrast, the “slow deat

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Richardson, Kate, Rod MacLeod, and Bridie Kent. "Ever decreasing circles: terminal illness, empowerment and decision-making." Journal of Primary Health Care 2, no. 2 (2010): 130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hc10130.

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INTRODUCTION: Empowerment is the personal and political processes patients go through to enhance and restore their sense of dignity and self-worth. However, there is much rhetoric surrounding nurses facilitating patients daily choices and enabling empowerment. Furthermore, there is frequently an imbalance of power sharing, with the patient often obliged to do what the health professional wants them to do. METHOD: This phenomenological study describes the lived experience of patients attending an outpatient clinic of a community hospice. A qualitative study using Max van Manens phenomenologic

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Ostrovskaya, Helena P. "Interpretation of Euthanasia in the Buddhist Worldview." Письменные памятники Востока 21, no. 2 (2024): 43–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.55512/wmo632338.

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Religious interpretations of the moral aspect of euthanasia arouse serious scholarly interest in the problematic field of bioethics. The article is devoted to the explication of the Buddhist approach to the ethical assessment of euthanasia based on the material of Encyclopedia of Abhidharma with Commentary, an exegetical work by the famous educator Vasubandhu (4th–5th centuries) . A thematic analysis of the text reveals two different types of euthanasia discussed by Buddhist exegetes. One of them is characterized as the foreign practice of killing terminally ill parents in order to save them f

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Jablonski, Kevin, and Gloria Duke. "Pain Management in Persons Who Are Terminally Ill in Rural Acute Care." Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing 14, no. 8 (2012): 533–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/njh.0b013e31825c7b50.

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Wright, Kristin, and Douglas Flemons. "DYING TO KNOW: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH WITH TERMINALLY ILL PERSONS AND THEIR FAMILIES." Death Studies 26, no. 3 (2002): 255–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481180211268.

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Surowiecka, Anna, Wojciech Garczynski, Anna Szczepanska, and Walery Zukow. "Nursing care of a patient in terminally ill cancer - case study." Journal of Education, Health and Sport 1, no. 1 (2011): 100–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/jehs.2011.01.01.010.

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The aim was to show the nurses and hospice care as a member of the team over the patient in a hospice for terminally ill cancer resident inthe house. Nurse choosing to work with patients who die must know that not only medical knowledge will be needed in carrying out its duties but alsoa lot of love, patience and above all humility toward life and death. Characterized range of palliative care and its residents. The paper presents adescription and policies for hospices and home desktops and volunteers working in them. Material - the subject of research - the case of a patient withpancreatic can

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