title: Taking "existential" suffering seriously.
authors.affiliation: The Hastings Center, 21 Malcolm Gordon Road, Garrison, NY 10524, USA. berlingern@thehastingscenter.org
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Berlinger
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016292:Procedural Sedation / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology; D005086:Existentialism; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology; D009626:Terminology as Topic