Scientific Community: Existentialistic And Humanistic Approach

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Hello Professor and class, Deaths for the scientific community could be expressed as how an organism stops in complete all biological functions. In a more existentialistic and humanistic approach it could be said that death is the end of a life, that is why at time it can be referred simply as passing away. When it comes to the end of life care definition may vary from the length of the life ending issue. It can range from taking care of someone from a few hours up to several years. This relates to those patients that may have a terminal condition or a condition with a very low prognosis and death is very likely to happen (ALBERT, 2017). To those people a special care is given to assist with comfort or any other need related to end of life.

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