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I am a hospice nurse. We are strangers to death. As more of us die blessedly in our homes, the culture of fear will recede, allowing us to see timely death as what it is--a universal experience as beautiful, significant, and unifying as birth. Death is never what we see on the screen; we all exit in our own way. Hospice can assist us and our caregivers assure that this exit is made in comfort and with dignity.

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