Explore: Psychological Aspects Of Terminally Ill

regardless of treatment. A patient who has such an illness may be referred to as a terminal patient, terminally ill or simply as being terminal. There is

context of medical and psychological research, and there is no consensus on what the underlying mechanisms are. It can occur even in cases of severe,

what proponents refer to as "medical aid in dying" (MAID), in which a terminally ill adult is prescribed, and self-administers, barbiturates if they feel

with the terminally ill person, and advocating for their needs and wishes providing spiritual and emotional support for the terminally ill person and

versions of sick role: Conditional, wherein both rights and duties apply Unconditionally legitimate - wherein obligations may not apply (the terminally ill are

palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous

with minimal pain. The most common devices are those designed to help terminally ill people die by voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide without prolonged

the combination of a suicide bag and helium was "a method of choice" within the right-to-die movement for people who are terminally ill and that its promotion

euthanasia device or machine consisting of a 3D-printed detachable capsule mounted on a stand that contains a canister of liquid nitrogen to die by suicide

inspired by her work with terminally ill patients. Motivated by the lack of instruction in medical schools on the subject of death and dying, Kübler-Ross