How palliative care patients’ feelings of being a burden to others can motivate a wish to die. Moral challenges in clinics and families
The article explores the underlying reasons for patients’ self-perception of being a burden (SPB) in family settings, including its impact on relationships when wishes to die (WTD) are expressed. In a prospective, interview-based study of WTD in patients with advanced cancer and non-cancer disease (...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2019]
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Bioethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 421-430 |
| IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCH Medical ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
end of life
B burden to others B ethics of care palliative care B qualitative studies B wish to die B wish to hasten death |
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