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Being panicked over unavoidable death
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Being confused about ineligibility to receive radical treatment | |
Reconsidering having cancer in older age | It is unavoidable to have cancer at this age |
Even though I have cancer, it all depends on how you look at it | |
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Recognizing a desire to survive even in older age | Conflicting feelings between “I have lived enough” and “I still want to live” |
Want to live until I can no longer live | |
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Changing one’s ideas from radical to life-prolonging treatment | Determining one’s own medical conditions |
Positively reconsidering life-prolonging treatment | |
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Carefully choosing treatments would allow to carry on one’s usual way of life | Carefully examining whether or not taking a chance with life-prolonging treatments in older age are worthwhile |
Fulfilling their own way of life | |
Obtaining approval of family about their choices | |
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Carefully choosing physicians to whom could entrust one’s life in older age | Carefully choosing physicians |
Focusing on information only from physicians | |
Entrusting treatment decisions to physicians |