ArticleInternational journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being2025
Relating to life and death a qualitative study of individuals with a long-lasting death wish related to unbearable psychiatric suffering.
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- The relationship between palliative psychiatry and assisted dying: a scoping review.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Review
- A Survey of Canadian Psychiatrists' Attitudes Towards Palliative Care Approaches for Severe and Persistent Mental Illness: Enquête sur les attitudes des psychiatres canadiens à l'égard des approches de soins palliatifs pour les troubles mentaux graves et persistants.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2026Article
- Persons suffering from severe and persistent mental illness with a persistent death wish: A cross-sectional study of the Reakiro care model.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study describes the lived experiences of persons with a long-lasting death wish related to unbearable psychiatric suffering (DWUPS) regarding their relationship to life and death. The findings are evaluated considering existing literature on suicidality and euthanasia, with a particular focus on the humanistic-existential perspective.
methodAn open-ended data-gathering strategy was employed to elicit comprehensive descriptive information about the phenomenon from ten in-depth interviews, applying the method of generic descriptive-interpretative qualitative research.
resultsPersons with DWUPS experience difficulties in connection with others, with themselves, with the world and with life itself. Concurrently, they indicate new possibilities for nascent connection in relation to others by receiving support and being able to share their death wish. This can result in growth in relation to themselves, in allowing hope, meaning and new engagement in life. The desire to die manifests itself in a variety of ways, including a strong and persistent death wish, an ambivalent attitude, or a temporary suspension of their death wish.
conclusionThe process of exploring the death wish can assist persons with DWUPS in accessing potential ambivalence between life and death, in regulating emotional distress and in bearing existential concerns related to the life-and-death-questions.
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