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 | Palliative Care, Pain Management, and Hospice |
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 | General End-of-Life Resources |
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Web site provides end-of-life resources, including information on advance directives, financial planning, caregiving, and pain management. A program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
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 | Assisted Suicide |
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on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide An organization whose goal is to make certain that a patient's right to receive care and compassion is not replaced by a doctor's right to prescribe poison or administer a lethal injection.
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