Table 3 Respondents’ health status, level of trust in physicians and healthcare, and attitudes and experience of death and dying (N = 1203)
Sample characteristics | N | % |
|---|---|---|
State of one’s health | ||
Good and very good | 628 | 52.2 |
Satisfactory | 355 | 29.5 |
Very bad and bad | 190 | 15.8 |
Trust | ||
Their GP | 942 | 78.3 |
Physicians | 789 | 65.6 |
Healthcare system | 711 | 59.1 |
Experiences with death | ||
Death of a friend | 628 | 52.2 |
Death of a father | 606 | 50.4 |
Death of a mother | 503 | 41.8 |
Death of brother/sister | 304 | 25.3 |
Death of partner | 263 | 21.8 |
Death of their own child | 77 | 6.4 |
Death of a pet | 703 | 58.5 |
Characteristics of a good death | ||
Absence of pain | 661 | 54.9 |
Presence of loved ones | 474 | 39.4 |
Lack of burden on loved ones | 473 | 39.3 |
Having had a fulfilled meaningful life | 453 | 37.7 |
Being in the presence of god | 387 | 32.2 |
Being alert and aware | 271 | 22.5 |
Having all treatment options | 249 | 20.7 |
Solving unfinished business | 174 | 14.5 |
Dying at home | 161 | 13.4 |