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Patient Information

You have just learned that you are dying. Terminal illness presents human beings with an exceedingly difficult and contradictory challenge; you are dying, you know you are dying; yet it is in your nature to want to live. The sites in this section provide useful information for people living with a terminal illness.

Patient Resources living-lessons.org

An excellent on-line brochure outlining resources that are available

• On Line Publications made available through the Living Lessons Program of the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association entitled You are Not Alone living-lessons.org

•   Hospice Net Patient Information   

Topics on this site include:

• Pain Control: Dispelling the Myths
• Helping Yourself Live While Dying
• Advance Directives
• Relieve Pain Without Medicine
• Choosing How To End
• A Dying Person's Guide To Dying
• What Is Palliative Hospice Care?
• Prescription Pain Relievers
• Nonprescription Pain Relievers

What Does Someone Dying Need?

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