End of life decisions, such as physician-assisted suicide (PAS), have continued to be controversial as health care policy, moral, and individual health care issues. This study considers knowledge of end of life options and death attitudes as predictors of attitudes toward PAS. Data were gathered from approximately 300 adults through a mailing sent to a household research panel. Validated measur...

In this study, we test Durkheim’s (1897) conceptualization of suicide as a pattern of suicidal behavior caused by sociological conditions and its effects on attitudes towards state sanctioned death through examining support for assisted suicide and the death penalty. Using secondary-data and quantitative analytical methods, we empirically examine personal attitudes towards assisted suicide for ...

Nurses are frequently exposed to dying patients and death in the course of their work. This experience makes individuals conscious of their own mortality, often giving rise to anxiety and unease. Nurses who have a strong anxiety about death may be less comfortable providing nursing care for patients at the end of their life. This paper explores the literature on death anxiety and nurses' attitu...

Introduction. Death means the irreversible termination of organism’s vital activities. Dying presents an state incurable disease from which death is expected in due time. The experience meaning life defined as degree to individual understands and sees significance his life, how what extent he feels purpose life. Aim. aim this research was determine role demographic characteristics (gender, age,...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine relationships among demographic variables and nurses attitudes toward death and caring for dying patients. DESIGN Descriptive and correlational. SETTING Two metropolitan hospitals in Detroit, MI. SAMPLE 58 RNs practicing in oncology and medical/surgical nursing. The majority was female and white, with a mean age of 41 years. METHODS Completed survey of thre...