By Robert Firestone
Separation Theory integrates psychoanalytic and existential systems of thought by showing how early interpersonal pain, and separation anxiety and later death anxiety lead to the development of powerful psychological defenses.
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Studies of dying patients who seek a hastened death have shown that their reasons often go beyond physical ones like intractable pain or emotional ones like feeling hopeless.
This is written for the person with advanced cancer, but it can be helpful to the people who care for, love, and support this person, too.
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If a person or loved one is elderly or has a terminal illness, knowing death may be near is often difficult to deal with or comprehend. Understanding what to expect may make things a little easier.
When my mom developed dementia, my dad tried to deny it and I tried to fix it. We both failed.