The Existential Dimension of Palliative Care

The Mirror Effect of Death on Life

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13628668
AutoresFrédérique Drillaud (0000-0002-5635-4970, Universitary Hospital, Bordeaux, France, autor de correspondencia), Camille Saussac (Universitary Hospital, Bordeaux, France), Florence Keusch (Universitary Hospital, Bordeaux, France), Danièle Lafaye (Universitary Hospital, Bordeaux, France), Hélène Bely (Universitary Hospital, Bordeaux, France), Véronique Averous (Universitary Hospital, Bordeaux, France), Matthieu Frasca (Universitary Hospital, Bordeaux, France), Patrick Baudry (Universitary Hospital, Bordeaux, France), Benoît Burucoa (0000-0002-6474-2367, Universitary Hospital, Bordeaux, France)
Año2020
Volumen85
Número4
Páginas915-935
Fecha de publicación2020-09-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0030222820952187
PMID32938304
OpenAlexW3087037477
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas23

The WHO has included the spiritual dimension in its definition of palliative care since 1990, but this dimension is frequently confused with notions of religion. Yet, the spiritual suffering experienced by palliative care patients is primarily a matter of existential suffering. The objective of this study was to examine the ways in which the existential dimension was manifested in the experiences of those present in a palliative care unit. This anthropological monograph was conducted in a palliative care unit in a French University Hospital. The existential dimension appears to reside in the connections between individuals and the proximity of death appears to shed new light on the meaning of life. The mirror effect of death on life, could serve to encourage greater appreciation of the value of our connections with others, and the desire to take care of others, which offers new insight into forms of solidarity and social organisation

Dimension (graph theory · Epistemology · Existentialism · Meaning (existential · Palliative care · Political science · Psychotherapist · Solidarity · Value (mathematics · Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning · Health, Medicine and Society · Law · Mathematics · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Philosophy · Psychology