"A morte em seu mostrar-se ao paciente oncológico em situação de metástase" / Death in its show to the oncological patient in metastasis situation.

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2005

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The new millennium brings along a new reality for Brazil: the aging of the population, and with it, the increase in the numbers of cases of chronic diseases, among them the cancer. My purpose in this study was to understand how the oncological patients in chemotherapic treatment, due to the metastasis, experience the death possibility. I lived in the oncological world, getting close to he patients in their existential dimension. To do so, were accomplished interviews with seven adult people that have been undergoing treatment in a private oncological clinic in Guarapuava – Pr. In order to analyze these interviews, I used some ideas of the philosophic reference of Martin Heidegger. From this analysis, death showed itself in different ways: implicit, as a natural phenomenon, lived in an impersonal way, by the other’s death or “the cases of death”, or even as a phenomenon that permeates the existence. The uncertainty about the future comes in the encounter between the possibility of dying and the possibility of healing, continuing, and, the hope of not being a sick person any longer. The cure is focused by the patient not only on the biological sphere but also in the search for a better quality of life, what involves a different meaning of the present moment. The pain and suffering are kept in the past while the present is remade in a new quotidian that involves the “private world” of the oncology, a quotidian that is threatened by the limits and fears imposed by the disease. The period of time experienced is restricted mainly to the chronological dimension. Faith appears meaningfully in the speeches as a way of softening the feeling that suffocates the human being. Considering the oncological condition of the human being with other, death has shown to the patient with cancer through words, talks, actions and through the eye of the other, mainly familiar, that in the same time shelters and denounces. Theses situations were understood as a facile way of taking care. However, in the familiar relation, attention and patience have also emerged as an authentic manner of taking care. It emerges still the relation between these patients with the health professionals, revealing methods of taking care nearly always facile, marked by the non-respect to the patient’s autonomy and by the right of participation when making decisions about his treatment. In the middle of this facile quotidian, some patients also recognize themselves in their finite. This study allowed a reflection on the present assistance model, that doesn’t contemplates the care of the man in his totality. It is necessary to build human competence to the integral care, directing not only to the cure, but also the human being in his singularity.

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care câncer morte death cuidado cancer

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