In Elderly Adults' Descriptions of the Most Distasteful Aspect of Death

question 4

True/False

In elderly adults' descriptions of the most distasteful aspect of death, the most common response (23 percent) was that 'The process of dying might be painful'.

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Humanistic Psychologists

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