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blondeatlast

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:35 PM
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29. Hospice care is entirely about alleviating any suffering.

The entire idea is palliative care for those who no longer are expected to live.

If she can feel pain, which is very unlikely, she won't, because they are giving her morphine. There is no reason to not administer it on a patient that cannot recover, so they give it freely, actually.

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