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Crisis theory has alerted us to the work that people have to do for themselves to master any life crisis.1 Dying is life’s terminal crisis. It demands of the dying patient a great deal of physical, social, intellectual, spiritual, and emotional effort to achieve death with dignity.
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Poss, S. (1984). How the Terminal Patient Accepts Dying. In: Moos, R.H. (eds) Coping with Physical Illness. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4772-9_27
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