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Table 2 Opening statements leading to spontaneous death talk during the first interview including 65 women and 34 men

From: Death talk: gender differences in talking about one’s own impending death

 

Women

Men

 

30-69 years-old

70+ years-old

30-69 years-old

70+ years-old

n = 33

n = 32

n = 19

n = 15

Acceptance

6%

9%

0%

0%

(2/33)

(3/32)

  

Concerns about well-being of family or family crisis

33%

9%

26%

0%

(11/33)

(3/32)

(5/19)

0%

Existential/spiritual/religious/pastoral

58%

81%

58%

87%

(19/33)

(24/34)

(11/19)

(13/15)

Remorse

3%

0%

16%

13%

 

(1/33)

 

(3/19)

(2/15)