Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed.. Published Online First: 6 February 2007. doi:10.1136/adc.2006.107409
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Fear of death and dying
1 Neonatal Service (Ward 35), United Kingdom
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: m.p.ward-platt{at}ncl.ac.uk.
Accepted 10 November 2006
Abstract
It would be possible to respond to Peter Barr's paper "Relation of neonatologists’ end-of-life decisions to their personal fear of death" with anger, disbelief or indifference; and it could be misunderstood as suggesting that covert euthanasia is a rampant practice in neonatal units, at least in Australasia. Neither these responses nor such a misreading would do justice to a paper that explores the personal attitudes that mediate the decision-making processes of neonatal consultants when faced with babies in whom the possibility of forgoing continued life support has become an option to be seriously considered.
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