**If we don't believe that the removal of life-saving interventions would restore the allegedly peaceful and predictable deaths of yesteryear, how can we explain the fact that many families come away from hospice feeling that their loved ones faded gently away in a very natural process?**
Good question!
**The appearance of a peaceful death is not a natural occurrence.
The hospice staff has to work on two fronts to gain the cooperation of both the patient and his family, on the one hand, and the physician, on the other.**
Amen!