The value of alleviating suffering and dignifying death in war and humanitarian crises

William E Rosa, Liz Grant, Felicia Marie Knaul, Joan Marston, Hector Arreola-Ornelas, Olena Riga, Roman Marabyan, Andriy Penkov, Libby Sallnow, M R Rajagopal

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1447-1450
Number of pages4
JournalLancet (British edition)
Volume399
Issue number10334
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Apr 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
WER acknowledges the NIH/NCI Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA008748 and is supported by the NCI award number T32 CA009461. FMK is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care and is the founding president of Tómatelo a Pecho, a Mexican non-governmental organisation (NGO), and works in a volunteer capacity; Tómatelo a Pecho receives funding from Merck Sharpe & Dohme. FMK is the senior economist of the Mexican Health Foundation, a Mexican NGO, which receives funding from Fundación Gonzalo Río Arronte. FMK reports consulting fees from EMD Serono, a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and grants to the University of Miami from the US Cancer Pain Relief Committee, GDS, and EMD Serono unrelated to the topic of this Comment. HA-O receives consulting fees from EMD Serono, a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, unrelated to the topic of this Comment. All other authors declare no competing interests.

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Keywords

  • Altruism
  • Humans
  • Relief Work
  • Warfare

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