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Two Depressive Terminally Ill Patients with Existential Suffering who Requested to Hasten Death Tatsuya MORITA 1 , Satoshi INOUE 1 , Satoshi CHIHARA 1 1Hospice, Seirel Mikatabara Hospital Keyword: Palliative care , Depression , Existential suffering , Euthanasia , Sedation , Advanced cancer pp.939-947
Published Date 1996/9/15
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1405904169
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 We reported two terminally ill patients with existential distress who requested to hasten death. Both of them were judged “rational” by psychiatric assessment. One patient was successfully treated by hospice care and intermittent sedation, for existential distress. The other received sedation for symptom relief because of expected poor prognosis. We used these cases as examples for a model for managing such patients in the last stages of cancer. From medical and ethical considerations, we discussed the necessity of evaluating the state of depression of such patients, propriety of the hospice care for existential distress, and the sedation for symptom relief.


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