end-of-life
Near death's door
End-of-life describes the final stage before something is discontinued, retired, or no longer supported.
In technology, end-of-life products receive no further updates or service: The software reached end-of-life last year.
In medicine, end-of-life care focuses on comfort for dying patients rather than cure.
The hyphenated form works as an adjective: end-of-life decisions, end-of-life planning.
Terminal illness comfort program
- palliativeOffering relief, not remedy
- caregivingAttending to dependents
- patient-centeredPrioritizing individual care needs
- interdisciplinaryCombining distinct fields
respite · counseling · geriatrics · compassion · dignity · bedside · nursing · holistic
Terminal illness comfort program
Intense sorrow from loss
- mourningPeriod following loss
- lossBeing without something
- funeralService honoring the dead
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
eulogy · obituary · condolences · remembrance · closure · farewell · cremation · interment
Deliberate death for relief
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- dignityInnate personal worth
- physician-assistedWith medical help
- bioethicsMoral philosophy for medicine
Property received from ancestors
- bequestGift left by will
- estateProperty and grounds
- heirsThose who inherit
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
remembrance · tribute · philanthropy · endowment · memories · heritage · obituary
hospice
Terminal illness comfort program
- palliativeOffering relief, not remedy
- caregivingAttending to dependents
- patient-centeredPrioritizing individual care needs
interdisciplinary · respite · counseling · geriatrics · compassion · dignity · bedside · nursing · holistic · DNR
hospice
Terminal illness comfort program
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
memorial · eulogy · obituary · condolences · remembrance · closure · farewell · cremation · interment · burial
euthanasia
Deliberate death for relief
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- dignityInnate personal worth
- physician-assistedWith medical help
inheritance
Property received from ancestors
memorial · remembrance · tribute · philanthropy · endowment · memories · heritage · obituary
DNR
End-of-life medical directive
executor · beneficiary · trust · guardianship
- deathdead, deceased, corpse, mortality, demise
- bioethicsbioethics, medical ethics, genetic engineering, beneficence, non-maleficence
- Body Rightsbodily autonomy, medical consent, self-ownership, reproductive rights, medical autonomy
- elder caresenior care, aged care, elderly care, gerontologist, geriatrician
- hospice carehospice, hospice care, hospice doctor, hospice aide, hospice volunteer
- obsolescenceobsolescence, datedness, outmodedness, outmoding, supersession
end-of-lifebirth
Coming into the world
infancy · inception · genesis · early life · childhood
end-of-lifecurative
Promoting recovery from illness
life-saving · therapeutic · restorative · rehabilitative · aggressive treatment
end-of-lifelaunch
Set into motion
product launch · rollout · new release · market entry · introduction
life, lively, lifetime, lifetimes, relived, outlived, relives, outliving, overlived