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[ 35 36 37 ] . Certainly also the cultural background determines attitudes and view points to the goals of care and in which situations of "intolerable suffering" sedation is ethically acceptable [ 38 ] . In several retrospective and prospective surveys the reported frequency of sedation due to intractable symptoms in different palliative care settings ranged from 7-52% with increasing incidence especially for "existential suffering" [ 39 40 41 ] . Diagnostic criteria and clinical preconditions for the consideration of sedation in patients with far advanced disease have been described by several authors [ 42 43 44 ] , but aims, targets, types of sedation and decision making remain conflicting issues.
Those existential speculations don't derive from the screenplay's source, an archetypal but otherwise down-to-earth 1962 novel by James Jones (who also wrote From Here to Eternity ) about the American invasion of the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal.
They called it a kairos --an auspicious moment, le moment juste . The existential philosopher Martin Heidegger translated the concept into the German word Augenblick , an instant that occurs in the blink of an eye.
The battles in Saving Private Ryan make most World War II pictures seem like Hollywood kid stuff--even the bleak, "existential" ones like Sam Fuller's Steel Helmet (1951) and Don Siegel's Hell Is for Heroes (1962).
However, there is much debate about where to draw the borderline between sedation for refractory symptoms that are of a mainly physical/somatic nature and for those psychological symptoms that are mainly due to existential suffering.
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