Background: Whereas most studies have focused on euthanasia and physician-assisted
suicide, few have dealt comprehensively with other critical interventions administered at the …

Objectives This study determined attitudes of four groups—Korean patients with cancer, their
family caregivers, physicians and the general Korean population—towards five critical end …

Purpose The debate about the end-of-life care decision is becoming a serious ethical and
legal concern in the Far-Eastern countries of Korea, China and Japan. However, the issues …

Purpose Understanding the concept of a “good death” is crucial to end-of-life care, but our
current understanding of what constitutes a good death is insufficient. Here, we investigated …

Integrated early palliative care (EPC) improves quality of life and reduces psychological
distress in adult patients with cancer and caregivers, but attitudes toward EPC have been …

A desire for death and requests to hasten death are major topics in recent medical literature.
The aim of this study was to clarify the bereaved family-reported incidence and reasons for …

Background: The aims of this study were to clarify end-of-life cancer care preferences and
associations with good-death concepts. Methods: The general population was sampled …

Goals of work The goal of this study was to investigate the utilization of and attitudes toward
life-sustaining treatments (LSTs) at the end of life. Materials and methods We identified …

Background “End of life” is a difficult topic of conversation in East Asian cultures, even
among patients and doctors who share a good rapport. In 2016, the Hospice, Palliative …

Introduction So far, hardly any experience exists whether end-of-life research on patients'
attitudes towards hastened death in Germany is feasible and how it is perceived by the …