Searching for euthanatos: the hospice alternative.
American culture, with its insistence on happiness and its obsession with technology, discourages a realistic approach to death. Within the concept of Euthanatos, a "good death," however, patients get the chance in the comfortable surroundings of the hospice to integrate dying into their total life experience. Here, their emotional as well as physical needs receive medical attention.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005239:Fear; D006738:Hospices; D006782:Hospitals, Special; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000523:psychology; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States