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Animal Welfare Considerations and Ethical Dilemmas Inherent in the Euthanasia of Blind Canine Patients

open access: yesAnimals, 2022
In dogs, several primary or secondary diseases affecting the ocular structures may cause blindness. In cases where the visual impairment is not associated with severe systemic involvement and the animal can still have, predictably, a good “long-term ...
Vito Biondi   +4 more
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The good death [PDF]

open access: yesNursing Ethics, 2013
In my experience, there has been a good deal of positive attention to death and dying recently. This contributes to the raising of awareness of philosophical, practical and aesthetic aspects. The Wellcome Collection in London, for example, hosted a special weekend event on the theme of ‘What makes a good death?’ The weekend event coincided with a ...
openaire   +4 more sources

A good death? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Social Work Practice, 2016
This paper offers some personal reflections on the idea of ‘a good death’, a theme in the writing of philosophers since classical times. The hospice movement has made immense progress in creating conditions in which we can ‘die better’. But such experiences are still the exception rather than the rule.
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Older individuals’ perceptions of a good death: A systematic literature review

open access: yes, 2022
The purpose of this literature review was to describe older individuals’ perceptions of a good death. A systematic data search of CINAHL, Medline, PsycINFO, ASSIA, and Medic databases from 2010 to 2020, supplemented with a manual search, resulted in 16 ...
Järviö, Tiina   +2 more
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Experiences of grief-bereavement after a medically assisted death in Canada: Bringing death to life

open access: yes, 2021
Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) legislation was passed in Canada in 2016, yet the bereavement experience of family and friends is not well understood. Using interpretive description, we interviewed nine bereaved individuals.
Beuthin, Rosanne   +4 more
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Existential Suffering in Palliative Care: An Existential Positive Psychology Perspective

open access: yesMedicina, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inadequacies of the current healthcare system and needs a paradigm change to one that is holistic and community based, illustrated by the healing wheel. The present paper proposes that existential positive psychology
Paul T. P. Wong, Timothy T. F. Yu
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The Good Death Project

open access: yes, 2022
This dataset results from a study titled "The Good Death Project." It includes several questions about the idea of a good death, including Likert-scale questions about the importance of 18 items on the Good Death Inventory.
Suntai, Z (via Mendeley Data)
core   +1 more source

Euthanasia - Between Good Death and Christian Death

open access: yesEIRP Proceedings, 2021
The question of euthanasia has a complexevolution, generating debates in legal media. The fact that certain countries have authorized the use of such means to end someone's life has caused a dangerous void in the legal system. It consists of the danger
Nelu Gheorghiță
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Cesta k neo-modernímu typu smrti

open access: yesHistorická sociologie, 2017
This text aims to trace the thematisation of death and dying in Sociology, which in the 1990’ evolves into constituion of independent sociological sub-discipline: “sociology of dying and death”.
Lenka Beranová
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In search of a good death

open access: yesRevista del Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, 2023
Death has always implied confusion, so accompanying this end-of-life process entails a highexistential commitment. If we add to this difficult task the hospital or legal constraints suffered bypatients in their agony, we ...
Alex O. Baraglia
doaj   +1 more source

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