@article{ref1,
title="Cancer patients' attitudes to final events in life: Wish for death, attitudes to cessation of treatment, suicide and euthanasia",
journal="Psycho-oncology",
year="1994",
author="Owen, C. and Tennant, C. and Levi, J. and Jones, M.",
volume="3",
number="1",
pages="1-9",
abstract="One hundred patients with cancer were interviewed regarding their attitude to a range of final life events in both their current real and hypothetical future circumstances. Patients who anticipated a future possible role for the more passive options of wishing death to come early or ceasing all treatment, were more hopeless and had a reduced quality of life. Patients however who anticipated a role for the more active options of suicide and/or euthanasia were less fatalistic and did not report a reduced quality of life. The desire for suicide was particularly positively related to younger age, a personal psychiatric past history, and a number of treatment‐related variables reflecting increased patient autonomy. Copyright © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1057-9249",
doi="10.1002/pon.2960030103",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pon.2960030103"
}