Medical Ethics and Meaning at End of Life

End-of-life issues, including fear of dying, have been recognized as a factor hindering psychosocial functioning in elderly populations.

As people age, many focus with increasing intensity on the issues they face as elderly members of society and as people facing end-of-life decision-making. The inevitability of death does not detract from the onset of death anxiety.

An emerging strategy is the use of existential philosophical principles in the creation of an operational psychoanalytic pra...