Table 2.

Patient participant characteristics.

	Pseudonym	Sex	Age	Diagnosis	Preferred place of death	Comments
1	Mr Jones	M	81	Cancer	Hospital	Would like to die in sleep
2	Mrs Rattray	F	82	Neurodegenerative disease	Home	Home if possible
3	Mrs Tomkins	F	58	Neurodegenerative disease	Hospice	Hope for sudden death
4	Mr Latimer	M	70	Cancer+	Home	Though expects to die in hospice
5	Mrs Cantwell	F	74	Cancer	Hospice
6	Mr Gordon	M	74	Cancer	Home	Happy to die alone
7	Mrs Prentice	F	72	Cancer	Home	Home if possible, alternatively, hospice
8	Mrs Knight	F	68	Cancer	Hospice
9	Mr Conran	M	81	Heart disease+	Home
10	Mr Wells	M	71	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease+	Home	Home if possible
11	Mrs Wood	F	81	Cancer	Don’t know, no preference
12	Mrs Samuels	F	88	Cancer	Home	Home if possible

⁺complex co-morbidity.