Narratives of Cancer Patients About Life Trajectories and Illness: Contributions of Sartrian existentialism to palliative care

Fabíola Langaro; Daniela Ribeiro Schneider

Narratives of Cancer Patients About Life Trajectories and Illness: Contributions of Sartrian existentialism to palliative care

Authors

Fabíola Langaro Author
Daniela Ribeiro Schneider Author

Keywords:

Cancer, attitudes to death, palliative care, existentialism, phenomenological method, hospice

Abstract

How does a person perceive forced self-isolation in general and within him/herself? This article presents a qualitative analysis based on twelve interviews with people in palliative care. The study was based on the existentialist perspective and phenomenological method and concluded that people build strategies to face illness and death from their life trajectory, as they understand the realisation of their ‘project of being’.