About death: To whom it may concern
Keywords:
Death, Disease, Philosophy, Physician
Abstract
Introduction: One could say that disease and fear of death are the key issues that make most people seek medical help. However, it is striking to find that most of the time devoted to teaching at medical schools focuses on disease while death is simply unspoken. Death as a real and universal fact is a topic rarely discussed in a doctors-to-be classroom.
Objective: This essay is intended to make the medical reader aware of the fact that in addition to scientific or empirical criteria, there are other valid and enriching perspectives about agony, death and dying; i.e. the philosophical and theological perspective. To that end, the background is a recently published article in this journal that will be referred to in the next pages.
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2. Gu D, Liu G, Vlosky DA, Yi Z. Factors associated with place of death among the Chinese oldest old. J Appl Gerontol. 2007;26:34-57.
3. Weitzen S, Teno JM, Fennell M, Mor V. Factors associated with site of death: a national study of where people die. Med Care. 2003;41:323-35.
4. Owen JE, Goode KT, Haley W. E End of life care and reactions to death in African-American and White family caregivers of relatives with Alzheimer disease. Omega: J Death Dying. 2001;43:349-61.
5. Van Rensbergen G, Nawrot TS, Van Hecke E, Nemery B. Where do the elderly die? The impact of nursing home utilisation on the place of death. Observations from a mortality cohort study in Flanders. BMC Public Health. 2006;6:178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-178.
6. Fried T, van Doorne C, O'Leary J, Tinetti M, Drickamer M. Older persons preferences for site of terminal care. Ann Intern Med. 1999;131:109-12.
7. Cortés H, Correa OL, Alonso-Babarro A. Preferencia del lugar de muerte y factores relacionados en personas mayores de la isla mediterránea de Ibiza. Rev Col Anest. 2011;39: 30-7.
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López R. JH, López R. O. About death: To whom it may concern. Colomb. J. Anesthesiol. [Internet]. 2012 Jul. 1 [cited 2024 Apr. 16];40(3):195-8. Available from: https://www.revcolanest.com.co/index.php/rca/article/view/401
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López R. JH, López R. O. About death: To whom it may concern. Colomb. J. Anesthesiol. [Internet]. 2012 Jul. 1 [cited 2024 Apr. 16];40(3):195-8. Available from: https://www.revcolanest.com.co/index.php/rca/article/view/401
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