Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is credited as one of the first clinicians to formalize
recommendations for working with patients with advanced medical illnesses. In her seminal …

Dignity has gained increasing attention as a vital component of quality of life and quality of
end-of-life care. This article reviews psychological, spiritual, existential, and physical issues …

In recent years, the lens of the media has narrowed issues of euthanasia and assisted
suicide to a drama involving two players: Dr. Kevorkian and the law. This has left suffering …

In this volume the authors examine some of the medical social and psychological conditions
which affect the way we die. Important topics covered include attitudes toward death; …

The basic tenets of palliative care are frequently subsumed under the goal of helping
patients to die with dignity. Our research group has studied the issue of dignity, with dying …

Purpose: Dignity Therapy is a novel therapeutic intervention designed to address
psychosocial and existential distress among the terminally ill. This brief, individualized …

Physician‐assisted death poses a unique challenge to those devoted to the understanding
and prevention of suicide. Though suicide driven by desperation that could be relieved must …

Palliative care practitioners are now better able than ever before to ameliorate end‐of‐life
symptom distress. What remains less developed, however, is the knowledgebase and skill …

Purpose This study examined a novel intervention, dignity therapy, designed to address
psychosocial and existential distress among terminally ill patients. Dignity therapy invites …

Psychosocial assessment and treatment are critical elements of care for terminally ill
patients who desire hastened death. Most patients, in saying that they want to die, are …