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Preferences Vary on Circumstances of Dying Among terminallyill people，attitudes differ on what they think constitutes a ____or bad death，the results of a new study suggest Dr.Elizabeth K Vig of the University of Washington in Seattle and colleagues interviewed 26men with____heart disease or cancer The men were asked to describe good and Bad deaths,and they also answered____about their preferences for dyingIn this small study，terminally ill men described good and bad deaths___ Vig saidThey did not hold the same views about such issues____the presence of others at the very end of life or preferred location of death. Many of the men considered____ in their sleep to be a good death.The reasons were varied and included not____that death was imminent，and that death would be painless. For close to half of the men，a prolongeddeath was______abad death Some of the men associated a prolonged death with prolonged pain，______others thought a prolonged death would be difficult for their families. Most men said that their_____ were very important to them，but this did not mean that they wanted relatives close at the_____ of death.Valuing family did not also___wanting family present at the very end of life, Vig said. In fact，some expressed concerns____burdening loved ones，Vig said.For instance，some men were worried about the emotional or_____ impact on their family members，according to the Washington researcher Some were worried____their need for care would be a burden on their families，she said | 
