Depression, Hopelessness, and Desire for Hastened Death in Terminally Ill Patients With Cancer
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- 13 December 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Jama-Journal Of The American Medical Association
- Vol. 284 (22), 2907-2911
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.284.22.2907
Abstract
Understanding why some patients with a terminal illness seek to hasten their death remains an important element in both the physician-assisted suicide debate as well as the practice of palliative care.1-3 Conflicting findings regarding the importance of factors such as pain, depression, and physical functioning have fueled debates regarding how best to respond to patient expressions of a desire to die.4,5This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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