Reply #5: It's a topic that the Hospice movement is helping people face

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Not the kind of death Mizmoon describes, but the type that is inevitable at the end of a long illness.

A study I read a few years back showed that people are equally or more afraid of pain that comes with a terminal illness as they are of death.

Hospice care makes that situation more bearable in so many ways - state-of-the-art pain control (docs that are more concerned with patient comfort then they are of FDA review), people who are comfortable talking about end-of-life issues, support for caregivers, the ability to be peacefully at home instead of in a hospital environment (constantly monitoring, intubated, woken-up, interupted, etc).