A Patient's Final Freedom

Am J Nurs. 2020 Jan;120(1):72. doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000652132.43264.3d.

Abstract

Despite end-stage COPD, she is able to make a graceful final exit on her own terms.

Publication types

  • Personal Narrative

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Attitude to Death*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Nursing Staff, Hospital / psychology*
  • Patients / psychology*
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / mortality*
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / psychology*
  • Right to Die*
  • Suicide, Assisted / psychology*