1. Le souhait de hâter la mort : définition, déterminants, enjeux et perspectives
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Marie Hasdenteufel and Bruno Quintard
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0301 basic medicine ,Cancer Research ,Palliative care ,Apprehension ,Health professionals ,business.industry ,Wish ,Hematology ,General Medicine ,humanities ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,0302 clinical medicine ,Oncology ,Nursing ,Order (business) ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Health care ,medicine ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,business - Abstract
In palliative care, it is not uncommon for people with serious illnesses to wish to hasten their death. These wishes present considerable challenges for health care professionals. The purpose of this review is to support healthcare professionals in their understanding and apprehension of patients' wishes to hasten their death. In order to do so, we will present the definition of this wish, and then we will study it, based on three main components, which are intentions, motivations and interactions. The common thread of this review lies in the following question: how to best support the human who faces death?
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- 2021
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