Searching for euthanatos: the hospice alternative
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Searching for euthanatos: the hospice alternative
Hosp Prog.
1979 Mar.
Abstract
American culture, with its insistence on happiness and its obsession with technology, discourages a realistic approach to death. Within the concept of Euthanatos, a "good death," however, patients get the chance in the comfortable surroundings of the hospice to integrate dying into their total life experience. Here, their emotional as well as physical needs receive medical attention.
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