Predictive Factor s for City Dweller s’ Attitudes toward Death with Dignity

People\'s attitudes toward aging in Fasa city, 2021

Background & Aims:  Aging is a vital phenomenon that happens to everyone. In different cultures, there are diverse beliefs and attitudes towards aging. This study aimed to determine the attitude of Fasa residents towards the elderly. Materials & Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 800 individuals between 13 and 60 years old by cluster sampling. The data collection ...

Attitudes of Chinese Oncology Physicians Toward Death with Dignity

BACKGROUND Death with dignity (DWD) refers to the refusal of life-prolonging measures for terminally ill patients by "living wills" forms in advance. More and more oncology physicians are receiving DWD requests from advance cancer patients in mainland China. OBJECTIVE The study objective was to investigate the attitudes of Chinese oncology physicians toward the legalization and implementation...

No . 687 ATTITUDES TOWARD THE INCOME GAP : JAPAN - U . S .

Employing the Japan-U.S. international survey, this study analyzed the cause of rising perception of the widening income gap in Japan. Between these two countries, their distinct value judgments on the substance of gap influence their recognition. Japanese have negative perception of the income gap caused by talent, academic background or luck; it seems relatively weak in the U.S. A large porti...

Death with dignity.

In recent years a succession of writers has lamented that a society which has the highest standard of living should also have the lowest standard of dying. Death, they maintain, has replaced sex as the most unmentionable taboo, and the act of dying has become lonely, mechanical, dehumanised, and at times gruesome.' Some have referred to the "obscenity of modern dying," exemplified by an imperso...

Attitudes toward Women ' S Roles and Daughters ' Sex Role