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In search of a good death: Good death is social construction
BMJ 2003; 327 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.327.7408.223-b (Published 24 July 2003) Cite this as: BMJ 2003;327:223
- Mary J Curtis, head of education and training
- Mount Edgecumbe Hospital, St Austell, Cornwall PL26 6AB
EDITOR—I refer to assumptions about the good death that are implicit in Ellershaw and Ward's paper.1 Dying is a social process guided by expectations of appropriate behaviours which delimit a range of dying trajectories, thus defining normal and abnormal dying.2
One example of a good …
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