ArticlePsycho-oncology2014
Intentions in wishes to die: analysis and a typology--a report of 30 qualitative case studies of terminally ill cancer patients in palliative care.
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- A bioethical perspective on the meanings behind a wish to hasten death: a meta-ethnographic review.BMC medical ethics · 2024Review
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- Lifelong versus not lifelong death wishes in older adults without severe illness: a cross-sectional survey.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Cross-sectional survey of the wish to die among palliative patients in Spain: one phenomenon, different experiences.BMJ supportive & palliative care · 2021Article
- Life worth living: cross-sectional study on the prevalence and determinants of the wish to die in elderly patients hospitalized in an internal medicine ward.BMC geriatrics · 2020Article
- Human relationships in patients' end-of-life: a qualitative study in a hospice ward.Internal and emergency medicine · 2020Article
- The Palliative Care of Patients With Incurable Cancer.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2020Article
- Wishes to die at the end of life and subjective experience of four different typical dying trajectories. A qualitative interview study.PloS one · 2019Article
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- The DEsire to DIe in Palliative care: Optimization of Management (DEDIPOM) - a study protocol.BMC palliative care · 2018Article
- [Ethical aspects of palliative medicine].Der Internist · 2016Review
- What a wish to die can mean: reasons, meanings and functions of wishes to die, reported from 30 qualitative case studies of terminally ill cancer patients in palliative care.BMC palliative care · 2014Article
- Questioning the value of present life: The lived experience of older people who see no future for themselves.Aging & mental healthArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the variations in and intentions of wishes to die (WTD) of palliative care cancer patients.
methodsThirty terminally ill cancer patients, their caregivers and relatives in a hospice, an oncology palliative care ward of a general hospital, and an outpatient palliative care service. 116 semistructured qualitative interviews analyzed by a combined approach using Grounded Theory and Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis.
resultsA WTD is dynamic and interactive. Its subjective phenomenology can be described by three aspects: intentions, motivations, and interactions. In this article, we present a typology of the possible intentions. We identified nine different (ideal) types of intentions that WTD statements might have, other than wishing to live and accepting death. Many WTD statements do not imply a desire to hasten death. The intentions of statements differ according to whether a WTD is related to as imaginary or as an action. Often WTD statements contain several partial wishes, which can be in tension with each other and form a dynamic, sometimes unstable equilibrium.
conclusionsTerminally ill persons' WTD statements differ in their intention, and deeper knowledge about these differences is ethically relevant.
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