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- Title
Five Miles From Tomorrow.
- Authors
Shah, Shetal
- Abstract
Discusses the author's experience in a remote Arctic village as he examines a 97-year-old patient. The old man's concerns about his uselessness and his pride in once being a whaler; His belief that he has nothing left to teach his grandsons and hope that the author will help him to end his life; Decision of the author not to help facilitate the old man's death; The man's decision to follow Siberian Yupik traditions and walk out on the frozen Arctic Ocean never to return.
- Subjects
ASSISTED suicide; MEDICAL ethics; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; OLDER people; DEATH
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2000, Vol 284, Issue 15, p1897
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.284.15.1897