{"title":"Travel at the end of life: The flight will kill him","authors":"David Ansari","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.70063","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8322.70063","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how travel figures into the coordination of end-of-life care. Drawing on interviews with palliative care professionals at two hospitals in the Paris region and the author's own family's experience of planning a last journey for an ageing grandfather between Pakistan and the United States, it explores the ethical, logistical and temporal dimensions of end-of-life travel. Palliative professionals supporting immigrant patients who wish to die in their countries of origin engage in what one doctor described as <i>bricolage</i>, piecing together financial, institutional and clinical resources to realise these journeys. Using intimate ethnography to bring personal and professional accounts into conversation, the article argues that enactments of belonging at the end of life require careful coordination across families, health professionals and community networks, and that the timing of such travel is shaped by the uncertain progression of terminal illness.</p>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"42 2","pages":"7-10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethical dilemmas in ethnographic research on end-of-life care","authors":"Natashe Lemos Dekker, Hanum Atikasari, Syeda Shajeela Shawkat, Annemarie Samuels","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.70060","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8322.70060","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ethnographic research on end-of-life care raises ethical dilemmas that merit explicit discussion. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Brazil, India and Indonesia as part of a comparative research project, this article examines a recurring ethical problem: the sensitivity of sharing or withholding diagnostic and prognostic knowledge when death is near. Such dilemmas overlap with those faced more broadly in medical anthropology, but the stakes are heightened when research participants have little time left and the researcher's decisions may affect how that time is spent. The article reflects on three fieldwork encounters in which researchers faced these tensions in different circumstances, and argues for the value of collective, team-based ethical deliberation before, during and after fieldwork. Open discussion of ethical dilemmas can help ethnographers of death and dying reflect on, decide on and sometimes simply sit with the challenges they encounter.</p>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"42 2","pages":"23-25"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8322.70060","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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