Introduction Terminal illnesses are health conditions that are life-limiting, and diagnoses of such conditions are distressing news that inexorably leaves patients and their families and friends filled with much uncertainty for the extended time periods. In the contemporary, such news does not only make the ailing and the affected kin perceive that everything has overturned, but also makes them acclimate to the norm of sudden death. These become the inception questions without definite answers, grief, and other mixed emotions and reactions, ranging from shock to acceptance, all of which determine how people deal with terminal illness. The main concern in this paper is to address how terminally ill people cope, along with the similarities and
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This comes along with resurgence of old grudges, and augmented temptations to engage themselves in turmoil and life-terminating actions such as committing suicide. The Life Resources Charitable Trust (2011) affirms by stating that sternly depressed terminal patients, who cannot bear the fatality associated with their condition, often consider suicide as an option. Okun and Nowinski (2011) outline crisis as the first stage of the five-stage family grief model, and the crisis emanating from terminal illness can be aggravated by a terminal patient’s failure to accept the condition. Interestingly, terminal patient who initially cope with terminal illness by failing to accept their conditions eventually embrace acceptance after realizing that depression and feelings of resentment are taking them nowhere.
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The other way in which hospice and related programs offer support is by providing trained professionals and volunteers, who offer respite care, spiritual counseling and support, and structural support, while assisting the terminally ill to drop the feeling of being burdensome to their loved once. Robinson and Segal (2014) mention that hospice also offers support to terminal patients and their families and friends in terms of bereavement support, social and physical services, and inpatient and nursing care. Hospice and other related programs also offer support in form of therapies, which may be speech therapies, or complimentary occupational and physical therapies. All these are offered with an aim of anxiety reduction, while ensuring that the emotional well-being and spiritual needs of the diseased and the affected kinsfolk and friends are catered for adequately. A point worth noting that in the provisions of support, hospice focuses primarily on improving quality of comfort, emotional needs, and spiritual welfare of the terminally ill and the allies, not curing the terminal
This comes along with resurgence of old grudges, and augmented temptations to engage themselves in turmoil and life-terminating actions such as committing suicide. The Life Resources Charitable Trust (2011) affirms by stating that sternly depressed terminal patients, who cannot bear the fatality associated with their condition, often consider suicide as an option. Okun and Nowinski (2011) outline crisis as the first stage of the five-stage family grief model, and the crisis emanating from terminal illness can be aggravated by a terminal patient’s failure to accept the condition. Interestingly, terminal patient who initially cope with terminal illness by failing to accept their conditions eventually embrace acceptance after realizing that depression and feelings of resentment are taking them nowhere.
Similarities and/or Differences of Reactions to Being Terminal in Children and …show more content…
The other way in which hospice and related programs offer support is by providing trained professionals and volunteers, who offer respite care, spiritual counseling and support, and structural support, while assisting the terminally ill to drop the feeling of being burdensome to their loved once. Robinson and Segal (2014) mention that hospice also offers support to terminal patients and their families and friends in terms of bereavement support, social and physical services, and inpatient and nursing care. Hospice and other related programs also offer support in form of therapies, which may be speech therapies, or complimentary occupational and physical therapies. All these are offered with an aim of anxiety reduction, while ensuring that the emotional well-being and spiritual needs of the diseased and the affected kinsfolk and friends are catered for adequately. A point worth noting that in the provisions of support, hospice focuses primarily on improving quality of comfort, emotional needs, and spiritual welfare of the terminally ill and the allies, not curing the terminal