Nursing of Dying Patients: from the Viewpoint of Cultural Background of Attending Death

Abstract

We wish to die peacefully in a manner suited to our values and taste. We also wish to be attended at our deathbed by people whom we love and try to find meaning in death. Here, I evaluate nursing of dying patients with regard to alienation of life and death from our daily living, problems concerning the judgment of death, how to die in a manner that fits the person's values and taste, and nursing for spiritual healing with traditional views of life and death, and cultural background of attending dying persons of the Japanese.

Citation

Morita, T. (2005), "Nursing of Dying Patients: from the Viewpoint of Cultural Background of Attending Death", Takahashi, T. (Ed.) Taking Life and Death Seriously - Bioethics from Japan (Advances in Bioethics, Vol. 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 175-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3709(05)08807-2