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How hospice workers navigate family requests to withhold information

I work in hospice and a patient's family keeps asking me to lie to her about her prognosis because they think the truth will kill her faster.

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The conspiracy of silence around death transforms those meant to provide comfort into unwilling participants in deception.

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