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A ‘good death’ has a price – and a new study shows not everyone in palliative care can afford it

  • Written by Henrietta Byrne, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
A ‘good death’ has a price – and a new study shows not everyone in palliative care can afford itBill Fairs/Unsplash

You would hope for your dying days to be full of calm and care. But our research with people who are dying shows this is far from the reality for many people.

Instead, financial stress plays a huge and increasing role in who can afford a “good death”.

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In our recent study, we interviewed 18 people nearing...

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