Edison Vidal
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143 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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Having control over death, that's not possible.
That's something that's God's work.
And for example, we had to mention to participants the possibility of advanced care planning as a way of explaining what was important to them and exercising some kind of control.
And so it was a concept that was out of their reality.
Whereas the idea of religion and spirituality, of having a God that's in control, and that God is the one who's going to decide everything, and their decision will be always good.
And that made people frame a good death around being at peace with God, being in a good relationship with God, which was almost absent from the UK.
So that kind of contrast, it was so strong that it was a surprise for us.
And I'm a Brazilian, I have lived here almost the biggest part of my life, and I wasn't aware, because I'm embedded in that reality, in that culture, how religion and spirituality frames that kind of view, and how strongly it protects people.
So it seems that religion and spirituality buffered that kind of anxiety.
It was a major means of emotional regulation for people.
And that view was beautiful.
And at the same time, besides those differences,
there are also some striking commonalities between the two countries.
So, for example, what Eric mentioned earlier on about the fear of being a burden, it was present in the two countries.
So people are worried, and I think that this is something that in palliative care we still struggle how to address these worries.
in an appropriate manner.
Some differences also were very remarkable about the meaning of dementia.
So in both countries, dementia is a disease that has a very strong stigma.
But in the UK, people internalized that stigma and they were afraid of being empty shells.
Whereas in Brazil, there are some participants who would say, so when I become a child again,
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