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the paper posits that death is an emotive issue and the way we help people to die is a particularly challanging issue to face. This paper discusses the issue by considering the role of hospice care. The paper shows how hospices were developed in the second part of the 20th century to help people obtain the death that they wanted to face, and they have developed into an expert resource that offers several benefits compared to hospital care provision.

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"The experience of dying changed markedly in the United States during the course of the 20th Century. Death moved away from the family and the home and into the hospital setting where it became an abnormal event to be technically managed. In part, the rise of the hospice movement has been a reaction against this development and a way of returning choice and control to the person and their family. This short essay discusses nature of hospice care in America and describes its skills base, funding arrangements and strengths."

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