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... dying ' patients were reprieved . There are no universally agreed criteria which can always separate patients with a fatal illness from those who will live on . I doubt if there can be ; but in practice there is sufficient medical ...
... dying ' patients were reprieved . There are no universally agreed criteria which can always separate patients with a fatal illness from those who will live on . I doubt if there can be ; but in practice there is sufficient medical ...
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... dying patients over a period of time . An idea of what can happen in one form of sudden death is given in the ... patients remembered the event . They described ' going into nothingness ' , ' fading out like lights ' , ' feel forced to ...
... dying patients over a period of time . An idea of what can happen in one form of sudden death is given in the ... patients remembered the event . They described ' going into nothingness ' , ' fading out like lights ' , ' feel forced to ...
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... dying . Two of the studies of dying patients that include an assessment of their awareness have said that about a quarter of the patients were aware of the final outcome . One of these reports was based on a study of over two hundred ...
... dying . Two of the studies of dying patients that include an assessment of their awareness have said that about a quarter of the patients were aware of the final outcome . One of these reports was based on a study of over two hundred ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
Fear of Death and Dying | 21 |
Death No More | 33 |
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