Maintaining the Will to Live of Patients With Advanced Cancer

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 524-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luluel Khan ◽  
Rebecca Wong ◽  
Madeline Li ◽  
Camilla Zimmermann ◽  
Chris Lo ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Gary Rodin ◽  
Sarah Hales

This chapter considers the loss of the will to live, the desire for hastened death, and suicidality in patients with advanced disease. The challenge of distinguishing the loss of the will to live as a manifestation of depression from nonpathological death acceptance is explored and the clinical implications of such distinctions are examined. The quantitative findings from our longitudinal research regarding the prevalence, trajectory, and correlates of the desire for death in patients with advanced cancer are presented. The qualitative findings from this research revealed three distinct dimensions of the desire for death, only one of which reflects the literal wish to end life. The role of Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM) in alleviating death anxiety, in examining the desire for death, in enhancing death preparation, and in improving communication with healthcare providers is considered here.


Transfers ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-141
Author(s):  
Chia-ling Lai

As Andrea Huyssen observes, since the 1990s the preservation of Holocaust heritage has become a worldwide phenomenon, and this “difficult heritage” has also led to the rise of “dark tourism.” Neither as sensationally traumatic as Auschwitz’s termination concentration camp in Poland nor as aesthetic as the forms of many modern Jewish museums in Germany and the United States, the Terezín Memorial in the Czech Republic provides a different way to present memorials of atrocity: it juxtaposes the original deadly site with the musical heritage that shows the will to live.


2021 ◽  
pp. 74-113
Author(s):  
Lara Sheehi ◽  
Stephen Sheehi
Keyword(s):  

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-162
Author(s):  
Paul Stewart

Malone's narratives are investigated through their relation to Schiller's and Schopenhauer's championing of aesthetic contemplation. Although Beckett follows Schopenhauer in his condemnation of the will-to-live, particularly as represented by procreation, it is argued that the narratives of Malone reveal an inability to create pure, disinterested, aesthetic objects. The paradigms of fictional creation adopted by Malone are infected by modes proper to sexual reproduction and therefore fail to release Malone from time and the will. It is argued that the reproductive motifs within demonstrate Beckett's subtle rejection of the aesthetic optimism of Schopenhauer and Schiller.


1996 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-298
Author(s):  
A. Spasari ◽  
A. Scalfari ◽  
F. Falvo ◽  
D. Pirritano ◽  
G.A. Ventrice ◽  
...  

The authors report their experience with 10 patients subjected to chemotherapy for urinary cancer. The decision to prolong therapy sprang from the persistent efficacy of the same and the will to live of the actual patients, while respecting the classical moral principles of bioethics.


1969 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. L. Ellison
Keyword(s):  

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