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  • Why not Hospice? A reluctance to refer

    Barbara Karnes RN|Jul 16, 2018

    There are just two ways to die, fast and gradual. Gradual death has a process to it. If it were happenstance and just happened, it would be a fast death. Gradual death usually occurs either because of old age or disease. With disease, the process begins months before actual death and in old age the process takes years. Most people have never considered what has been written in the above paragraph. Yet everyone will be faced with the experience of death, someone they care about or their own. Throughout most of American society the idea of dying...