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When families disagree about end-of-life care decisions in hospice

My husband is in hospice care and our two adult children have completely different ideas about how much medical intervention we should still pursue — one wants to keep fighting, the other says we're prolonging suffering, and I'm caught between them while trying to be present for him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A family is fragmenting under the weight of different approaches to letting go, each person's grief manifesting as conflicting convictions about care.

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