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Conference

Patients’ Wishes in Regard to Their Life’s End. Moral Understandings of the ‘Wish to Die’ and Ethical Implications: 1-2 June 2012; University Hospital, Spitalstrasse 21, 4031 Basel, Switzerland

Based on the results of a qualitative interview study conducted with 30 palliative care patients 2008-2011 in different palliative care situations in Switzerland, the conference explores terminally ill oncology patients’, their relatives’ and their caregivers’ perspectives on the phenomenon of a ‘wish to die’. Key ethical issues and
consequences for palliative care practice and education shall be identified and discussed
using different normative, narrative, hermeneutic, relational and phenomenological
approaches.
The research project: “Terminally ill patients’ wish to die. The attitudes and concerns
of patients with incurable disease about the end of life and dying” was conducted
at the Unit of Ethics in the Biosciences at the University of Basel, funded by Oncosuisse, the Gottfried und Julia Bangerter-Rhyner-Stiftung, and the Förderstiftung of
the hospice of Arlesheim. The project is now affiliated at the Institute of Bioethics
IBMB, University of Basel.