What constitutes a "good death"? What are the criticisms of a "good death"?
What will be an ideal response?
Care providers are increasingly interested in helping individuals experience a "good death." One view is that a good death involves physical comfort, support from loved ones, acceptance, and appropriate medical care. For some individuals, a good death involves accepting one's impending death and not feeling like a burden to others. In a recent review, the three most frequent themes described in articles on a good death involved (1) preference for dying process (94 percent of reports), (2) pain-free status (81 percent), and (3) emotional well-being (64 percent).
Recent criticisms of the "good death" concept emphasize that death itself has shifted from being an event at a single point in time to a process that takes place over years and even decades. Thus, say the critics, one needs to move away from the concept of a "good death" as a specific event for an individual person to a larger vision of a world that not only meets the needs of individuals at their moment of death but also focuses on making their lives better during their final years and decades.
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