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Maja Holm1,2, Megan Weber Falk2, Anette Alvariza2,3
1Department of Nursing Sciences, Sophiahemmet University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Abstract:
This paper explores how bereaved parents with dependent children reasoned about their partner's impending death due to cancer. Questionnaires were used to collect data from 42 cancer-bereaved parents of dependent children in Sweden. The results showed that most of the parents had thought, at least once, that death would be best for their partner's own sake. A few parents had also thought that it would be best for everyone if their partner died. Many parents had a wish to keep up hope, no matter what. However, living with a partner with advanced illness and dependent children was described as extremely stressful.
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