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Defining a good death: Perspectives of patients, relatives, and health care professionals in the Catalan context-A qualitative study. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE
Health systems often lack integrated, person-centered end-of-life care. Improving this care is a key priority for decision-makers in the Catalan context.
Vicky Serra-Sutton   +4 more
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In search of a good death: A good death described

open access: yesBMJ, 2003
EDITOR—I like to think that my husband had a good death. He had cancer of the oesophagus, which was treated with chemotherapy and surgery. After that he had a good year …
Campling, Frankie E.
openaire   +4 more sources

“Good death” – the circumstances in which it would be best for a person to die. The representative survey of Latvian population [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2022
The paper analyses the opinions of Latvian residents about the desired/best conditions for person’s death. Our intention was to use the concept of “good death” as it has been described in academic literature on the end of life to describe what ...
Kalnina Diana, Skulte Ilva
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Bathing in Terminal Care of Cancer Patients and Its Relation to Perceptions of a ?Good Death?: A Nationwide Bereavement Survey in Japan

open access: yesPalliative Medicine Reports, 2022
Background: Bathing in a tub is integral to Japanese culture. It improves palliative care patients' symptoms and may improve quality of life. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the prevalence and impressions of bathing for terminally ill cancer ...
Eriko Hayashi   +7 more
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Psychometric Evaluation of the Good Death Index from Patients with Terminal Cancer’s Perspectives: A Mixed-Methods Study

open access: yesJournal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
Shih-Hsuan Pi,1– 3 In-Fun Li,4,5 Pei-Yi Li,6 Yuen-Liang Lai,7 Chun-Kai Fang6– 9 1Department of Medical Research, Tamsui Branch, MacKay Memorial Hospital, New Taipei, Taiwan; 2General Education Center, MacKay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing, and ...
Pi SH, Li IF, Li PY, Lai YL, Fang CK
doaj   +2 more sources

Contemporary ethical problem - Euthanasia

open access: yesJournal of Education, Health and Sport, 2019
Admission Cultural changes and more dynamic medical techniques result in a multitude of questions related to the bioethical aspects of medicine. In recent years, increased interest in the sphere of death.
Patrycja Ręba
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Euthanasia: The conceptualization of the problem and important distinctions [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo, 2013
The aim of this work is twofold. On the one hand, the intention is to provide analysis of the issue of euthanasia. On the other hand, this approach necessarily leads to a discussion toward the provision of an adequate definition of euthanasia ...
Đerić Milijana
doaj   +1 more source

Ars Moriendi. Ethical Challenges of the Ultimate Realities of Life

open access: yesEthics in Progress, 2022
The aim of this issue of Ethics in Progress is to provide a provisional, open-ended view on the ultimate realities of life and the ethical challenges they pose in medical, sociological, and existential contexts.
Sara Sgarlata   +2 more
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