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• Dying & bereavement >> Living with Dying >> Age 51-60 >> Interview 06 >> Thinks he should have been given advice about practical matters such as a 'living will'.

Diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy in 2000.

• Dying & bereavement >> Living with Dying >> Age 30-50 >> Interview 25 >> Has written a letter to say that she doesn't want to be resuscitated and plans to make a proper “living will”.

Diagnosed with end stage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in 1986. Also has early heart failure and severe osteoporosis, and is treated with medication, a nebuliser and oxygen.

• Dying & bereavement >> Living with Dying >> Age 71-80 >> Interview 18 >> Thinks that both a “living will” and euthanasia mean that life may be shortened artificially and believes that both are morally wrong.

Diagnosed with bladder cancer and prostate cancer in 2001, followed by transurethral resections in 2001 and 2002, and then a prostatectomy and cystectomy (removal of bladder) and urostomy in 2002.

• Dying & bereavement >> Living with Dying >> Age 61-70 >> Interview 27 >> Thinks that pressure should be put on parliament to change the law on euthanasia.

Diagnosed with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which has been treated with pain relief and other symptom control.

• Dying & bereavement >> Living with Dying >> Age 81-90 >> Interview 38 >> He has signed legal documents to ensure that he is not resuscitated or kept alive artificially.

Diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2001, and unsuccessfully treated with a bladder infusion of BCG. Offered radiotherapy but declined because it was thought that treatment might affect mobility (due to polyneuropathy diagnosed in 1994).

• Dying & bereavement >> Living with Dying >> Age 51-60 >> Interview 17 >> She intends to make a “living will” because she would hate to be resuscitated if she were “on the way out”.

Diagnosed with cancer of the kidney in 2001, with metastases in the lung and bone. Treated with surgery, Interferon, and radiotherapy (to bone), and also complementary therapy.

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Advance directives (“living wills”)

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Advance directives (“living wills”)