Open Access“I want to die in my sleep”—how people think about death, choice, and control: findings from a Massive Open Online Course
Author(s) -
Christine Sanderson,
Lauren Miller-Lewis,
Deb Rawlings,
Deborah Parker,
Jennifer Tieman
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annals of palliative medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 2224-5839
pISSN - 2224-5820
DOI - 10.21037/apm.2019.03.07
Subject(s) - palliative care , thematic analysis , medicine , advance care planning , assisted suicide , control (management) , end of life care , nursing , qualitative research , psychiatry , sociology , social science , management , economics
Complex social and ethical debates about voluntary assisted dying (euthanasia), palliative care, and advance care planning are presently being worked through in many developed countries, and the policy implications of these discussions for palliative care are potentially very significant. However, community attitudes to death and dying are complex, multilayered, and contain many mixed messages.