![]() Studies were identified through six databases (ISI, PubMed. Methods and Findings Systematic review and meta-ethnography of qualitative studies from the patient's perspective. This study aims to understand the experience of patients with serious or incurable illness who express such a wish. Rarely, acceding to the patient's request for hastening death may be the least terrible therapeutic alternative. When patients ask for death to be hastened, the following areas should be explored: the adequacy of symptom control difficulties in the patients relationships. Background There is a need for an in-depth approach to the meaning of the wish to hasten death (WTHD). In those infrequent instances when a patient with persistent, irremediable suffering seeks a prompt and comfortable death, the physician must confront the moral, legal, and professional ramifications of his or her response. In all cases, patient requests for accelerated death require ongoing discussion and active efforts to palliate physical and psychological distress. Appreciation of the clinical determinants and meanings of requests to hasten death can broaden therapeutic options. Times, Sunday Times But for patients who are already seriously ill - transplant patients and those undergoing chemotherapy - it can hasten death. Cronin 2 : to cause to happen more quickly : accelerate His death was hastened by alcoholism. transitive verb 1 : to encourage to move or act quickly : to urge on hastened her to the door A. She more than anyone had hastened to sign the contract. : to move or act quickly She hastened up the stairs. ![]() V n 2 verb If you hastento do something, you are quick to do it. (speed up) But if he does this, he may hasten the collapse of his own country. When patients ask for death to be hastened, the following areas should be explored: the adequacy of symptom control difficulties in the patient's relationships with family, friends, and health workers psychological disturbances, especially grief, depression, anxiety, organic mental disorders, and personality disorders and the patient's personal orientation to the meaning of life and suffering. 1 verb If you hasten an event or process, often an unpleasant one, you make it happen faster or sooner. Thoughts about accelerating death usually do not reflect a sustained desire for suicide or euthanasia, but have other important meanings that require exploration. OTHER WORDS FOR hasten 2 urge, press expedite, quicken, speed precipitate. ![]() verb (used with object) to cause to hasten accelerate: to hasten someone from a room to hasten the arrival of a happier time. They may broach this wish with their physicians, and even request assistance in hastening death. to move or act with haste proceed with haste hurry: to hasten to a place. Terminally ill patients often hope that death will come quickly. ![]()
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