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The Indian Anaesthetists' Forum, 2005 Science and technology have offered medical therapies the potential to treat serious illnesses where once the medical professionals could only provide comfort. Physicians feel the need to aggressively fight against illness and death.
Dr. Anjum S. Joad
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Global Review on Safer End of Engineered Life [PDF]
, 2021 In this Global Review on Safer End of Engineered Life, we take a long overdue and systematic look at the scientific evidence around waste and resources management and the impact on human health and life.
Cook, E, Velis, CA
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The End of Life, The Ends of Life: An Anthropological View [PDF]
Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of North America, 2012 All known human societies have a worldview that deserves to be called religion; all religions must explain death. Anthropologists study the diversity of religious systems, present and past, in order to understand what is common to humanity. Rather than starting from the view of a particular revelation or set of doctrines, the anthropologist tries to ...
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Bratislava Medical Journal, 2007 Dying, but not the death, is an essential problem. The more we believe that death ends everything, the more we fear from death. A human spirit only hardly copes with this fact. All religions want to cut this fear. They highlight that present life continues and human spirit lives further on, in another postmortem dimension.
F, Nemeth +3 more
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Quality of life at the end of life [PDF]
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2007 Little is known about self-perceived quality of life (QOL) near the end of life, because such information is difficult to collect and to interpret. Here, we describe QOL in the weeks near death and determine correlates of QOL over time, with emphasis on accounting for death and missing data.Data on QOL were collected approximately every week in an ...
Downey Lois +5 more
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, 2023 This article will reflect on a case study from practice in which end-of-life care (EOLC) was initiated for a patient, after a period of hesitation. It will explore the possible reasons for this delay, especially in relation to the withdrawal of medical ...
Mortimore, G., Farrington, L.
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Suffering and the end of life [PDF]
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2021 Relief of suffering is an important goal of medicine and aligns with the professional maxim of ‘do no harm’ and the bioethical principle of non‐maleficence. Capturing what individuals experience or third‐parties sense in terms of suffering is difficult, made harder in the patient who is too young or not able to tell us.
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Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2008 BACKGROUND: Understanding patients’ needs and perspectives is fundamental to improving end-of-life (EOL) care. However, little is known of what quality care means to patients who have advanced lung disease.
Graeme M Rocker +3 more
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Enabling occupation at the end of life: A literature review [PDF]
, 2015 Objective: Occupation, or meaningful activity, can contribute to the well-being and quality of life of all individuals. It is thus a logical tautology that occupation should be enabled for those at the end of life.
Mills, Katherine, Payne, Angela
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BMC Pediatrics, 2021 Background Research has highlighted the need for evidence-based interventions to improve paediatric advance care planning (pACP) in adolescents with cancer.
Anne van Driessche +7 more
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