Sentence examples for death preferences from inspiring English sources

This paper examines the place of death preferences of 41 terminally ill cancer patients and 18 of their informal carers, living in the Morecambe Bay area of north-west England.

The strongest message conveyed by the interviewees was that they considered place of death preferences as typically dynamic and/or incompletely defined.

Perceptions of family's ability to care impacted on place of care preferences, whereas consequences of witnessing death at home (e.g. for children) impacted on place of death preferences [ 50, 73].

In studies measuring preferences for both place of care and place of death, we plotted place of death preferences; these were deemed most relevant given the policy and trends of increasing home deaths.

Thirteen factors were identified as shaping the place of death preference of patients and carers.

In documenting these factors, this paper adds significantly to current knowledge on the factors that shape place of death preference, a field of enquiry acknowledged to be underdeveloped (J. Palliative Med. 3 (2000) 287).

In our study, differences were observed in place of death preference among people with place of birth in China, India and the Philippines.

For the health states of bilateral prophylactic mastectomy, prophylactic oophorectomy, having both bilateral prophylactic mastectomy and oophorectomy, cancer, metastatic cancer and death, preference ratings were used from a study of women aged 33 – 50 with a family history of breast and ovarian cancer (Grann et al, 1999b).

Moreover, the influence aggravating and mitigating circumstances such as the offender's age, mental capacity, prior record, and death-eligibility were found to strongly affect the public's death penalty preferences.

Gomes and Higginson [ 31] undertook a systematic review of 58 studies and identified a complex mix of 17 factors that impacted on place of death and preferences for death at home being met.

After Annie's death, Darwin abandoned the remaining vestiges of Christian faith, the last preference for even Unitarian theology, and became, essentially, a stoic.