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Jane Brody, a health columnist for the New York Times, accompanies hospice workers to the homes of four patients whose condition is suitable for in-home hospice care.

While introducing hospice care, she explains that: With hospice, death assumes a more natural trajectory, unencumbered by frightening machines and sometimes grotesque interventions of modern medicine that do little, if anything, to prolong life and often make dying more painful for patients and families, as well as costlier for society.

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Brody, Jane E. "In Hospice, Care and Comfort as Life Wanes". New York Times. Published: November 30, 2009. <www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/health/01brod.html>. New York Times, The New York Times Company, 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018, U.S.A.

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