Citation

Owen C, Tennant C, Levi J, Jones M. Psychooncology 1994; 3(1): 1-9.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/pon.2960030103

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

One hundred patients with cancer were interviewed regarding their attitude to a range of final life events in both their current real and hypothetical future circumstances. Patients who anticipated a future possible role for the more passive options of wishing death to come early or ceasing all treatment, were more hopeless and had a reduced quality of life. Patients however who anticipated a role for the more active options of suicide and/or euthanasia were less fatalistic and did not report a reduced quality of life. The desire for suicide was particularly positively related to younger age, a personal psychiatric past history, and a number of treatment‐related variables reflecting increased patient autonomy. Copyright © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Language: en

Keywords

attitude; adult; human; suicide; female; male; aged; quality of life; death; article; major clinical study; euthanasia; life event; cancer