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Human relationships in patients’ end-of-life: a qualitative study in a hospice ward
2019
Living in a hospice department is an intense experience for patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals. End-of-life care aims to conduct vulnerable dying patients towards a painless and peaceful death. The importance of a strong staff-patient relationship and the perspective of pain and suffering from patients has already been studied. This study aimed to explore patients' inner needs living in hospice through a qualitative research approach. A descriptive qualitative study was conducted in the hospice department at ARNAS Civico in Palermo, Italy. From a qualitative research point of view, a significant sample of ten dying patients was interviewed. Data were collected until saturati…
Interpretations of Suffering in Phenomenology of Life and Today’s Life-World
2012
Philosophers make difference between pain and suffering. Pain can be characterized as phenomenon of internal experience of sentient beings, mainly based on psycho-physical experience. Suffering from the phenomenologican point of view is reflected painful feeling with meaning constituted in intentional act. Suffering manifest Mensch-Schmerz (F. Nietzsche), painful creative affects of the life process. Attitude to suffering shows human positioning in the Universe. It have been described at the philosophy of Stoics, B. Pascal, A. Schopenhauer, F. Nietzsche, M. Scheler, V. Frankl, S. Weil, Z. Maurina, A.-T. Tymieniecka and others. Phenomenology of life sees birth, death and suffering as a drama…