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Being Mortal

Atul Gawande

A fatal illness

Hospice is not an easy choice for a person to make. A hospice nurse enters people’s lives at a strange moment – when they have understood that they have a fatal illness but not necessarily acknowledged that they are dying. “I’d say only about a quarter have accepted their fate when they come into hospice,” Creed said. When

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