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54. How can you "not know" that hospice is involved?

Reply to The_REAL_Ecumenist (Reply #52)

Fri Jun 30, 2017, 09:01 AM

Jun 2017

Hospice helped me in my mother's final days. It is an extremely thorough process involving many people, equipment etc.

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