Quality Of Life Is Most Important Than Its Length

Most severely ill people confess that they would agree to improve quality of remaining life instead of prolonging it.

A number of European survey respondents confessed that most horrible aspects of severe untreatable disease are pains and the necessity to be a burden on family. Also most preferable is relief from bodily sufferings than release of family from troubles connected with them.

In survey participated almost nine hundred people from England, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Portugal. Two thirds of them had relatives with serious diseases such as cancer. Half of them said that they had an occasion to sit at person's bed-side past months and one in ten said they suffered themselves from diseases.

They were asked what would they do if they had only one year left to live. 71% said they would like to live happily their last months and only 4% said they would like to prolong their life. The rest 25% said that both quality of life and its length are important. In England 47% confessed that their main desire is to release from pain. 25% would like to keep their courage. Only 8% said they were anxious about following through their beginnings.