TY - JOUR
T1 - Cancer patients' attitudes to final events in life
T2 - Wish for death, attitudes to cessation of treatment, suicide and euthanasia
AU - Owen, Cathy
AU - Tennant, Christopher
AU - Levi, John
AU - Jones, Michael
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - One hundred patients with cancer were interviewed regarding their attitude to a range of final life events in both their current real and hypothetical future circumstances. Patients who anticipated a future possible role for the more passive options of wishing death to come early or ceasing all treatment, were more hopeless and had a reduced quality of life. Patients however who anticipated a role for the more active options of suicide and/or euthanasia were less fatalistic and did not report a reduced quality of life. The desire for suicide was particularly positively related to younger age, a personal psychiatric past history, and a number of treatment‐related variables reflecting increased patient autonomy.
AB - One hundred patients with cancer were interviewed regarding their attitude to a range of final life events in both their current real and hypothetical future circumstances. Patients who anticipated a future possible role for the more passive options of wishing death to come early or ceasing all treatment, were more hopeless and had a reduced quality of life. Patients however who anticipated a role for the more active options of suicide and/or euthanasia were less fatalistic and did not report a reduced quality of life. The desire for suicide was particularly positively related to younger age, a personal psychiatric past history, and a number of treatment‐related variables reflecting increased patient autonomy.
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U2 - 10.1002/pon.2960030103
DO - 10.1002/pon.2960030103
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0028589436
SN - 1057-9249
VL - 3
SP - 1
EP - 9
JO - Psycho‐Oncology
JF - Psycho‐Oncology
IS - 1
ER -