Buddhists, including the Bhutanese, value human life as rare and precious, and accept
sickness, ageing and death as normal aspects of life. However, death and dying are …

Palliative care aims to relieve serious health-related suffering among patients and families
affected by life-limiting illnesses. However, palliative care remains limited or non-existent in …

In few areas have the advances in scientific knowledge and the new medical technologies
raised more basic questions about the very nature, meaning and value of human life than in …

The Tibetan cultural conceptualization of death and care for the dying are informed and
shaped by the intersection of Tibetan medical and Buddhist practice. In Tibetan culture …

In Thailand, a series of global and local political events has destabilized the concept of
dying and begun to replace it with a competing concept known as “the end of life.” As a …

This paper explores how conceptions of death and the ways in which such conceptions
shape responses to death determine ways of living as well as valued approaches to dying …

Palliative care, a holistic care approach aimed at improving quality of life of patients with life-
limiting illness and that of their families, is minimal or non-existent in low-and middle-income …

This paper focuses on the nature of cultural practices and belief systems related to death
and dying in Vajrayana (Tibetan) Buddhism. Based on ethnographic and psychological …

Tibetan Buddhist understandings of the death process bridge scientific, materialist
observations and religio-spiritual interpretations. Tibetan Buddhism and medicine overlap in …

Abstract The Kingdom of Bhutan is seeking to progressively realize the human right to health
without addressing the cross-cutting human rights principles essential to a rights-based …