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We offer the following comments on the excellent article by Vig and Pearlman.¹ This was a study of a small number of terminally ill patients. All the patients were male veterans with a mean age of 71 years. Veterans have lived under different conditions and have perceived death from close quarters many times. Their attitudes toward life and death get modified.^2-3 We are ourselves armed forces medical personnel and future veterans. Based on our personal experiences, we take the liberty of stating that frequent exposure to death on a regular basis tends to somewhat desensitize soldiers. Attitudes toward life and death are also bound to be different at various ages.⁴ Senior citizens are experienced, mature (with some exceptions), wise, and more scarred by the day-to-day battles of life. This study brings out that clinicians should endeavor to find out what suffering means to the dying patient, and they should help . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Kuldip Anand, MD; Ajit Kashyap, MD; Pitambar Prusty, MD

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