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  • Spirituality Protects Against End-Of-Life Despair

    05/09/2003 11:37:15 AM PDT · by Pharmboy · 13 replies · 110+ views
    Reuters Health ^ | 5-9-03 | Alison McCook
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Having a sense of spiritual well-being -- or an understanding of the meaning and purpose of life, regardless of religion -- appears to help terminally ill people avoid spending their last months of life in despair, according to a report released Thursday. Among people with less than three months to live, U.S. investigators found that those with a strong sense of spiritual well-being were less likely than others to feel hopeless, want to die or consider suicide. Patients who were depressed only tended to want to die if they also had a low sense of...