Promoting Peaceful Death for Thai Buddhists

Kongsuwan, Waraporn; Touhy, Theris A.

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“…The current case study reveals that spiritual care is essential for peaceful dying (Kongsuwan and Touhy 2009). Buddhism construes an endless continuum of living and dying from two dimensions.…”

Section: Non-duality Between Life and Deathmentioning

confidence: 85%

Buddhist Insights into Life and Death: Overcoming Death Anxiety

Cheng¹

2016

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Death anxiety devastates emotional well-being and may produce suicidal ideations, thus lowering life satisfaction. Although much literature suggests that religion reduces this fear, their direct correlation remains controversial. The present case study investigates how a Buddhist perceives life and death, and how she copes with death anxiety through Buddhist teachings and practices. Using multiple first-hand sources, it analyses data through an interpretative phenomenological analysis. It also adopts peer analysis to increase academic rigour, attaining an inter-rater reliability of 93%. Findings reveal that the law of dependent origination, karma, cause-and-effect, and the cycle of life and rebirth expound on the phenomenal reality, giving hope, and producing peace when facing death. Despite the fact that a single case does not aim at generalisation, research outcomes shed light on helping professionals who equip themselves with a wider range of worldviews and life views in order to enhance their professional skills.

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Section: Non-duality Between Life and Deathmentioning

confidence: 85%

Buddhist Insights into Life and Death: Overcoming Death Anxiety

Cheng¹

2016

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“…End of life care should be focused on providing emotional support for dying patients and caregivers to cope with death effectively. [16] Nurses, social workers, and psychotherapists are constantly assessing emotional issues related to care and providing emotional support for dying patients during end of life care. This attribute helps dying patients and their families to improve their experiences with end of life care and the notion of death.…”

Section: Emotional Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It also helps dying patients, their families, and caregivers in adapting appropriate coping mechanisms. [16] In end of life care, health care providers have to be honest and truthful in preparing patients and their families of what is to come. [9] Practical support by health care providers is important in end of life care, because providing care for dying patients will help caregivers to have some normality in their life and preparedness for bereavement.…”

Section: Emotional Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Approaching end of life is a personal experience; however, nurses while providing end of life care are obligated to assist dying patients to experience as peaceful a death as possible. [16] In end of life care, nurses are able to provide peaceful experiences by observing and interpreting patients' cues that reflect being or not being in a peaceful state. It has been reported that in order to achieve a peaceful death during end of life care, nurses have to manage pain, ensure a sense of comfort, maintain privacy, and ensure family and significant closeness.…”

Section: Good Deathmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has been reported that in order to achieve a peaceful death during end of life care, nurses have to manage pain, ensure a sense of comfort, maintain privacy, and ensure family and significant closeness. [16] Borhani et al (2014) [10] explored nurses' perspectives of end of life care in an Islamic context. They found that nurses promote peaceful deaths for Muslim patients by performing specific Islamic rituals during the dying phase.…”

Section: Good Deathmentioning

confidence: 99%

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End of life care: A concept analysis

Ibrahim

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Khraim

2021

IJH

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Background: End of life care is crucial to preserve a dying patient’s values and dignity. This type of care also works towards fulfilling any last wishes the dying person may have.Aim: The aim of this paper is to analyze the concept of end of life care using Rodgers’ evolutionary method as a guide.Methods: A systematic search of the literature was conducted in CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Medline databases. After reviewing the literature from 2006 to 2019, 14 articles were selected to be included in this analysis.Results: The consequences of this concept include a good death, peaceful death, and dying with dignity.Conclusions: This concept analysis provides attributes that could help to develop a standardized end of life care approach to patients who are dying.

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2023

Cancer Treatment and Research

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Promoting Peaceful Death for Thai Buddhists

Abstract: The conceptual model of promoting a peaceful death was synthesized from Buddhist philosophy, the theory of "Peaceful End of Life," related literature, and a story from experience. Nurses can use this model as a practical guide for the holistic care of Thai Buddhists who are dying.

Cited by 19 publications

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Buddhist Insights into Life and Death: Overcoming Death Anxiety

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