1 End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University,Belgium.
2 Co-founder of and psychiatrist at Vonkel (an end-of-life consultation centre in Ghent,East Flanders),Belgium.
3 Department of Methodology and Statistics,Faculty of Psychology and Education Science,Open University of the Netherlands,Heerlen,the Netherlands. Email:monica.verhofstadt@gmail.com.