Persons facing death due to terminal illness experience diverse physical, emotional, and
relationship challenges. Dying persons have more than just physical needs, and spiritual …

In recent years, medical and allied health publications have begun to address various topics
on spirituality. Scholars have posited numerous definitions of spirituality and wrestled with …

In this article, the author explores the ways that an individual's spirituality influences
responses to life-threatening illness and dying. He begins by differentiating between religion …

Palliative care is constantly guided and challenged by the question of what it means to die
well. In attempting to answer the question palliative care has come to view the needs of the …

One of the assumptions that underpins the literature on spirituality is the belief that facing a
terminal illness is a life crisis that intensifies the search for meaning, leaving individuals …

It has become a truism to describe contemporary American culture as secular. To Becker it is
that very secularization that has led to the denial of death [1]. Yet the term “secularization” …

Based in an unfortunate tradition that stretches back in time to Watson's behaviorism and
Freud's psychoanalysis, psychology has tended to reject and to pathologize matters of the …

Objective: With spirituality being one of the most important components of end-of-life (EOL)
care, this study explored the oral responses of 44 dying persons who expressed spirituality …

Although spiritual caregiving is a key domain of palliative care, it lacks a clear definition,
which impedes both caregiving and research in this domain. The aim of this study was to …

Objective: A meta-summary of the qualitative literature on spiritual perspectives of adults
who are at the end of life was undertaken to summarily analyze the research to date and …