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| warm, personal, patient and family-centered care for a person with a terminal illness. |
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| care aimed at relieving pain and suffering and allowing the terminally ill to die in peace, comfort, and dignity. Also called comfort care. |
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| a frequently observed decline in cognitive abilities near the end of life. Also called terminal decline. |
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| loss, due to death, of someone to whom one feels close and the process of adjustment to the loss. |
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| emotional response experienced in the early phases of bereavement |
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| working out of psychological issues connected with grief. |
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| deliberate withholding or discontinuation of life-prolonging treatment of a terminally ill person in order to end suffering or allow death with dignity. |
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| deliberate action taken to shorten the life of a terminally ill person in order to end suffering or to allow death with dignity; also called mercy killing. |
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| advance directive (living will) |
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| document specifying the type of care wanted by the maker in the event of an incapacitating or terminal illness. |
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| durable power of attorney |
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| legal instrument that appoints an individual to make decisions in the event of another person's incapacitation. |
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| suicide in which a physician or someone else helps a person take his or her own life. |
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| reminiscence about one's life in order to see its significance. |
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