Regardless of the nature of the disease, 'palliative care' should be available for all dying people. Identify and briefly evaluate some arguments for and against this assertion.

In this essay I shall firstly give a description of what palliative care is. I will discuss the modern hospice and the history of care provided in early hospices. Secondly I shall review the care that people with incurable diseases receive. In order to do this, I will gather evidence from course materials and other literature to examine the expanding hospice movement, and look at the arguments for and against the expansion of palliative care …

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