“Withstanding ambivalence is of particular importance”—Controversies among experts on dealing with desire to die in palliative care

• Kerstin Kremeike ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kerstin Kremeike, Thomas Dojan

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kerstin.kremeike@uk-koeln.de

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4316-2379

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• Thomas Dojan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kerstin Kremeike, Thomas Dojan

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Carolin Rosendahl,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Saskia Jünger,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Health, University of Applied Health Sciences, Bochum, Germany

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• Vanessa Romotzky,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Kathleen Boström,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Gerrit Frerich,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Raymond Voltz

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Palliative Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Center for Integrated Oncology Cologne / Bonn (CIO), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Center for Health Services Research Cologne (ZVFK), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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