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    What Does Dying Feel Like?

    October 14, 2017 / No Comments

    What does dying feel like? Science is Just Beginning to Understand the Experience of Life’s End. “Do you want to know what will happen as your body starts shutting down?” My mother and I sat across from the hospice nurse in my parents’ Colorado home. It was 2005, and my mother had reached the end of treatments for metastatic breast cancer. A month or two earlier, she’d been able to take the dog for daily walks in the mountains and travel to Australia with my father. Now, she was weak, exhausted from the disease and chemotherapy and pain medication. My mother had been the one to decide, with her doctor’s blessing, to stop…

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    Researchers Find that Cancer Patients who Discharge from Hospice have Increased Hospitalizations and are less likely to Die at Home

    September 28, 2010 / No Comments

    According to a new study, patients with terminal cancer that discharge from hospice care had significantly higher rates of hospitalizations – including admission to the emergency department and intensive care unit – than patients who remained under the care of hospice. Furthermore, patients who discharge from hospice were more likely to die in the hospital than patients who remained with hospice until their deaths. National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization hopes that healthcare professionals and policy makers will take time to look at this and other recent studies that help provide a better understanding of both the cost and quality-of-life benefits associated with the hospice experience, including honoring a patient’s wish to be…

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