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A Request to Hasten Death (8:28 min)

Posted by Greg Schneider on August 23, 2008 at 7:03pm
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Tags: als, "pallium project", communication, "assisted suicide", end-of-life
This socio-drama based segment is from The Pallium Project's, first generation Clinical Communication in Hospice Palliative Care instructional video series (Canada). The Clinical Communication series is a set of reflective-discussion based discussion videos intended to support a variety of critical reflective conversations in pre-service education and continuing professional development. This segment can be used to: 1) Discuss common issues operating in patient-family/provider dynamics that might present and manifest in a request to hasten death; 2) Discuss existential suffering or total pain/suffering as part of an ongoing palliative assessment process; and 3) Explore the potential for well-intentioned family communication dynamics/expectations to potentially contribute to complicating life closure and existential suffering.

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