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- Title
Appreciating the Dynamicity of Values at the End of Life: A Psychological and Ethical Analysis.
- Authors
Burns, Austin
- Abstract
It can be difficult for families to accept when loved ones experience a change in saliency of values due to serious illness and inevitable death. When patients lose decision-making capacity, family members often refuse to withdraw care and insist on the continuation of non-beneficial treatment. Through a joint ethical and psychological analysis, this case study examines the narrative of a husband and wife, wed for over 50 years, and how the patient's values, his life's story, and the wife's interpretation of his preferences were reconciled to achieve a resolution that respected the patient's autonomy and previously expressed wishes.
- Subjects
VALUES (Ethics); PATIENT autonomy; HUSBANDS
- Publication
Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 2, p177
- ISSN
2157-1732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/nib.2022.0043