Facing Death

Facing Death

Public discussion and debate concerning legal, ethical, philosophical, and emotional aspects of death and dying have slowly gained prominence over the past decade. However, parallel discussions among physicians regarding their perspectives toward their dying patients have remained more subdued and less visible, repressed within a culture of hi-tech medical care that often perceives patient deat...

The Value of Life When Facing Death

This paper reports estimates of the value of statistical lives using the labor market behavior of wave 2 of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). By exploiting the panel structure of the HRS, it is possible to provide the first test of the Pratt-Zeckhauser "dead anyway" hypothesis and to measure the importance of health status and quality of life for value of statistical life (VSL) estimates....

Couples facing death. I-Psychosocial aspects.

Forty-one couples facing the prospect of separation by death were followed up from the time of admission to a continuing care unit through death of the patient to an interview with the bereaved spouse. Half the patients were found to have anxiety or depression or both, usually as a result of failure to cope with specific difficulties. These fell into four groups: unsatisfactory communication, d...

The experience of nursing students facing death and dying.

OBJECTIVE To understand the phenomenon experienced by nursing students in their academic practices in view of death and dying. METHODOLOGY This was a qualitative study, based on Martin Heidegger' existential phenomenology, undertaken at a public University in Alagoas, Brazil, between August and October 2013. Seven senior students of nursing were interviewed. RESULTS The phenomenological ana...

[Facing death at the Birkenau and Ravensbrueck concentration camps].