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Other Factors
| Other factors | End of Life | Hastened Death |
|---|---|---|
| Structure of health care delivery | Availability, or not, of specialised services or at-home care support, cost of care, social policies supporting family caregiving [34, 41, 46, 49, 55, 61] | Legality, or not, of hastened death [15, 19, 20] |
| Grief | Variable acceptance of impending death, anticipatory grief [27, 31, 32, 36, 37, 41, 46–48, 51, 60] | Acceptance of hastened death as better than suffering or prolonged dying [19] |
