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Many times doctors do not seek aggressive treatment at the end of life. http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/17/opinions/doctors-choose-quality-of-life-over-length-corley/index.html

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/health-family/article61118222.html

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By Karen Garloch

“In March 2009, my close friend and former Observer reporter, Kathleen McClain, entered hospice care after years of treatment for congestive heart failure. Doctors said there was nothing more they could do. So she stopped taking some heavy-duty heart medicines and prepared to die.

Then, something unexpected happened. With loving care in the peaceful surroundings at Levine & Dickson Hospice House in Huntersville, she not only didn’t die, she began to feel better. She celebrated her 57th birthday that September and ordered new fall clothes from Land’s End.”

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