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[Exploring and Responding to a Wish to Hasten Death of a patient with Advanced Illness]
Claudia Mazzocato1, Laurence Séchaud2
1Service de soins palliatifs, Département de Médecine, CHUV, Lausanne.
Praxis
|February 26, 2015
Abstract:
It is not uncommon for patients with an advanced disease to express a desire to their physician to hasten their death. Recent studies show that the motivation of such a desire is multifactorial and multidimensional, including depression, physical, psycho-social and spiritual suffering, fears about the process of dying and/or misunderstandings about the options for end-of-life care. The objective of this paper is to propose to the physician how to explore the dimensions of this request and some elements to answer it.
Keywords:
Antizipierende Planung eines TherapieprojektesGesteigerter TodeswunschPalliativpflegeRolle des Hausarztesadvance care planningdesire to hasten deathdésir d'hâter la survenue de la mortpalliative careplanification anticipée du projet thérapeutiquerole of the general practitionerrôle du médecin généralistesoins palliatifs