Sentences with phrase «future widowhood»

In societies such as Belgium and the Netherlands in which euthanasia consciousness has been popularly embraced, doctor - facilitated suicide is available to the dying, the disabled, the elderly, the mentally ill — and even some married couples who choose death over the prospect of future widowhood.

In Belgium, elderly couples have been euthanized together because they would rather die than face future widowhood.

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Second, future work would benefit from investigating the dynamics of racial and ethnic differences in the link between widowhood, age heterogamy, and health of the surviving spouse.