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Depression and the Will to Live in the Psychological Landscape of Terminally ill Patients (IN: The Case Against Assisted Suicide, ed. by K Foley & H Hendin)
Chochinov H M~~Schwartz L
This chapter attempts to outline some of the critical psychological considerations & the research literature that inform society’s current understanding of the difference between a wish to die, the waning of the will to live, & depression in patients nearing death.