By Candace Rotolo — 2020
The truth is that many of us just don’t know the right words to comfort someone who is dying.
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Studies of dying patients who seek a hastened death have shown that their reasons often go beyond physical ones like intractable pain or emotional ones like feeling hopeless.
Learn how to give patients and their families the support they need.
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