• Hospital progress · Mar 1979

    Searching for euthanatos: the hospice alternative.

    • T L Corbett and D M Hai.
    • Hosp Prog. 1979 Mar 1;60(3):38-41, 76.

    AbstractAmerican culture, with its insistence on happiness and its obsession with technology, discourages a realistic approach to death. Within the concept of Euthanatos, a "good death," however, patients get the chance in the comfortable surroundings of the hospice to integrate dying into their total life experience. Here, their emotional as well as physical needs receive medical attention.

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