“Because you know there's an end to it”: Caring for a relative or friend with advanced breast cancer

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to delineate the particular nature of the end-of-life care experience from the perspective of family members and friends. Ideas drawn from feminist analyses of caring and the sociology of death and dying are used to illuminate study respondents' accounts. METHODS: Qualitative study with people who cared for a family member or friend who died of breast cancer. Two interviews were conducted with each of 12 …